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Leave New York Daily, except Sunday, from Desbrosses Street Pier, 8.40 a. m.; 
Forty-second Street Pier, N. R., 9.00 a. m.; W. 129th Street Pier, 9.20 a. m. 
From Albany, 8.30 a. m. 


ALL SERVICE DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY 


Landings—Yonkers, West Point, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Kingston Point, 
Catskill and Hudson 


DIRECT CONNECTING TRAINS ON WHARFS FOR ALL POINTS IN CATSKILLS, 
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ANNOUNCEMENT—“‘Mary Powell” (Kingston Boat) service opens May 28th, 
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CONTENTS: 


AN INTRODUCTION TO NEw York, : ‘ 
GETTING ABOUT THE CITy, . WN : : 
THEATERS AND OTHER AMUSEMENTS, . . F 
THE CiTy’s Parks, DRIVES, AND Pusiic Museums, 


A Tour OF THE CITY, . ' : ’ . 
THE RIVFRS AND HARBOR, . : F : 
A RAMBLE AT NIGHT, ; ; : 


CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS AND BENEVOLENT WoRK, 


EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, LIBRARIES, ETC., 


CLUBS AND SOCIETIES, . : : z : 
GREATER NEw YorK, . 5 . > 
SEASIDE AND SUBURBAN RESORTS, ’ 


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Advice to Inexperienced Travelers 


The metropolis has many entrances. A dozen regular lines of 
steamships bring passengers from Europe, and many others from 
South and Central America, the West Indies, and the ports along 
the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic Coast. Lines of steam- 
boats connecting with railroads come down the Hudson and from 
Long Island Sound. Five great railway termini stand upon the 
western bank of the Hudson, and are connected with New York by 
ferries. Jong Island is covered with a network of roads. Finally, 
in the very heart of the city stands the Grand Central Terminal and 
Penn. Station. It will be well to point out distinctly the landing- 
places of passengers arriving by any one of these routes, beginning 
with the ocean steamships. Cabin passengers may go ashore as soon 
as the vessel is made fast, and will find custom-house inspectors 
ready to examine their baggage on the wharf without delay. Pick 
out your trunks, give to the inspector your ‘‘declaration’’ and your 
keys, be polite and good tempered, and the ordeal is quickly and 
easily passed. 


Steamship Landings 
TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIPS 


American Line.—Pier 62, North River, foot of West 22d Street. 
(Southampton, Plymouth, Cherbourg). 

Anchor Line.—Pier 29, foot of Harrison Street, Union Stores, 
Brooklyn. (Marseilles, Leghorn and Naples). 


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Anchor Line. Pier 64, North River, foot of 24th Street. (Glasgow. ) 


Atlantic Transport.--Pier 58 (new), North River, foot of West 
16th Street. (London.) 


Austro-Americana Steamship Co., Ltd. Pier 1, Bush Docks, 
South Brooklyn. (Naples, Venice and Trieste. ) 


Compagnie Generale Transatlantique.—Pier 57 (new), North 
River, foot of 15th Street. (Havre.) 


Compania Transatlantica.—Pier 8, East River. (Havana, Mex- 
ican, South American and Spanish Ports.) 


Cunard Line.—Piers 54, 55 and 56 (new), North River, foot of 
West 14th Street. (Queenstown, Fishguard and Liverpool; Gibral- 
tar, Genoa, Naples, Fiume and Trieste.) 


Fabre Line.—Foot of 31st Street, Brooklyn. (Genoa, Naples and 
Marseilles.) 

Hamburg-American Line.—Pier foot of tst Street, Hoboken. 
(Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg; Gibraltar, Naples and 
Genoa ) 

Flolland-America Line.—Pier foot of 5th Street, Hoboken. 
(Rotterdam. ) 

La Veloce Line.—Pier 74, North River, foot of 34th Street. 
(Genoa, Naples, Palermo and Messina.) 


Lloyd Italiano Steamship Co.—Pier 6, foot of 42d Street, Bush 
Docks, South Brooklyn. (Naples and Genoa.) 


Lloyd Sabaudo.—Pier B, Penn. R. R., Jersey City. (Naples and 
Genoa. ) 
Navigaztone Generale [taliana—Pier 74, North River, foot of 34th 


Street. (Genoa, Naples, Palermo and Messina, connecting lines to 
the Orient.) 


North German Lloyd.—Pier foot of 3d Street, Hoboken. (South- 
ampton and Bremen; Gibraltar, Naples and Genoa.) 

Phenix Line.—Pier 59, North River, foot of West 18th Street. 
(Antwerp. ) 

Prince Line.—Pier 4, foot of 45th Street, Bush Docks, South 
Brooklyn. (Gibraltar. Naples and Piraeus; also Rio de Janeiro, 
Buenos Ayres and other South American ports, and to South African 
and Far East ports.) 


Red Star Line.—Pier 61 (new), North River, foot of 21st Street. 
(Dover and Antwerp.) 


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Russian American Line.—3 1st St., Brooklyn. (Rotterdam and 
Libau.) 

Scandinavian-American Line.— Foot of 17th St., Hoboken. 
(Christiansand. Christiania, Copenhagen and Stettin.) 

Stcula-Americana Line.— Pier 22, Brooklyn. (Naples, Palermo 
and Messina.) 

White Star Line.—Piers 60 to 61 (new), N. R., foot of zoth and 
21st Sts. (Queenstown, Liverpool, Plymouth, Cherbourg and 
Southampton; Gibraltar, Naples and Genoa.) 

Wilson Line.—Foot of 7th St., Hoboken. (Hull.) 


Coastwise Steamships 


Clyde Line.—Pier 36, N.R., foot of Spring St. (Charleston and 
Jacksonville. ) 

i a Line.—Pier 34, Atlantic Basin, Brooklyn. (West Indian 
orts. 

Hamburg-American Line.—Foot of 43d St., Bush Docks, South 
Brooklyn. (Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian Ports.) 

Lloyd Braztleiro.—Foot of 43d St., Bush Docks, South Brooklyn. 
(Rio de Janeiro and other ports in Brazil.) 

Munson Line.—Pier 9, E. R., Old Slip. (Cuba.) 

Now York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co.—( Ward Line)—Piers 
13 and 14, E. R., foot of Wall St. and of Pine St. (Havana and 
West Indian Ports. 

New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co.—(Ward Line)—Piers 
16 and 17, foot of Joralemon St., Prentice Stores, Brooklyn. (West 
Indian and Mexican Ports.) 

New York and Porto Rico Steamship Co.—Pier 35, Atlantic Docks, 
foot of Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn. (Porto Rico.) 

Panama Railroad Steamship Line.—Pier 67, N. R., foot of 27th 
St. (Colon.) 

Quebec Steamship Co., Ltd.—Pier 47, N. R., foot of roth St. 
(Bermuda and West Indies; also Montreal and Quebec.) 

Red Cross Line.—Pier B, foot of Richard St., Erie Basin, Brook- 
lyn. (Halifax and St. Johns.) 

Red ‘‘D”’ Line.—Pier 11, foot of Montague St., Brooklyn. (Porto 
Rico and Venezuela.) 

Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.—Pier 42, N. R., foot of Morton St. 
(West Indian, South and Central American Ports, also Bermuda 
and West Indies.) 

United Fruit Co.’s Steamship Lines—Piers 15 and 16, E. R. 
(Jamaica.) 


River and Sound Steamboats 


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a merely local traffic, and connect at their farther end with railways. 
The River boats cease running during the winter months, when the 
Hudson isimpeded by ice, but ‘the Sound boats are never interrupted, 
and rarely delayed. The landings of these boats are at the foot of 
the streets following: 

Albany Day Line. Albany and Intermediate Points.Desbrosses St., N. R., 


(See Adv. in front of Book) W. 42d St., W. 129th St. and Yonkers 
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BridgepoLt kane. ee eee Bridgeportés 5 -ee oe Catharine St., E. R 
Catskill Evening Line........ Gatskalliiesc pence coma Christopher St., N. R 
Gentral Hudson S25. Gok... New buLehe. corneas Franklin St., N. R. 


Central R. R. of N. J. (Sandy Hook Route) New Jersey 


Coast Resorts...Cedar St., N. R. and W. 42d St. 
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Haller vieiiu rie waren ccee tet Fall Pye Bs SPIN Re Rede ee Sl SA Fo Warren St., N. R. 
Harnttordsleine mere cent. ceee Hartford ia tcskieiss ee, eileen Pier 19, E.R. 
Mary Powell Steamboat Co. NewHcree and BEA LOU .Desbrosses St., N. R. 

(See Adv. in front of Book) W. 42d St. and W. 120th St. -- 

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Railway Stations 


Central R. R. of New Jersey, Baltimore & Ohio (Royal Blue Line), 
and Philadelphia & Reading R. R., and dependencies. Ferries, foot 
of Liberty St. and West 23d St., N. R., New York, Sandy Hook 
Route Steamers to Jersey Coast Resorts, foot of Cedar and West 
42d Streets, N. R. 

Erie R. R., New York, Susquehanna & Western R. R., and local 
dependencies, Pavonia Avenue, Jersey City, reaching New York by 
ferries at Chambers Street and West 23d Street. Connects also with 
Hudson Tunnel at Broadway and 34th Street, or Hudson Terminal 
Building, Cortlandt and Church Streets. 

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, and Morris & Essex R. Rs. have 
a depot in Hoboken, where ferries come to Barclay, Christopher and 
West 23d Streets, New York. Connect also with the Hudson Tun- 
nel to Broadway and 34th Street, or Hudson Terminal Building, 
Cortlandt and Church Streets, New York. 

Lehigh Valley R. R. (Pennsylvania Station), station in Jersey City, 
with ferries running to Cortlandt and Desbrosses Streets, New York. 
Connects also with Hudson Tunnel, Broadway and 34th Street, and 
Hudson Terminal Building, Cortlandt and Church Streets, New York. 

The West Shore and the New York, Ontario & Western come into 
a depot at Weehawken, north of Hoboken. A downtown ferry 
brings passengers to the foot of Cortlandt Street and an uptown 
ferry crosses directly to the foot of West 42d Street, whence cars 
transfer to all parts of the city, with direct connections to the Grand 
Central Terminal. Baggage checked to every ferry. 

This finishes the list of Stations on the New Jersey shore. At pres- 
ent there are two passenger stations on Manhattan Island. These 
are the Grand Central Terminal and the Pennsylvania R. R. Station. 


BROAD STREET—Looking North from Beaver Street 


12 AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW VORK 


The New York Central & Hudson River R. R. (Harlem & Hudson 
Division) and the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. arrive and 
leave the Grand Central Terminal at East 42d Street. 


The Grand Central Terminal. The old station, for forty years the 
only terminal in New York, and one of the landmarks of the City, 
has been demolished, and the erection of the magnificent new station 
(see illustration on page 2) is now almost complete. This great 
work is being carried on without any interruption to traffic. The 
temporary station, in which are located all the conveniences of a 
modern terminal, is larger than the old station,and there are a 
greater number of tracks in use than at any time since the terminal 
was opened in 1871. From the present station there are convenient 
means of reaching all the lines cf local transit for all parts of New 
York and Brooklyn, including the subway, Lexington Avenue sur 
face line (passing directly by the door), Madison Avenue line, 
42d Street crosstown line and Third Avenue elevated line. Baggage 
express agencies and the office of the New York Central’s automobile 
carriage service are in the building. 


Pennsylvania R. R. Station, Seventh and Eighth Avenues, Thirty- 
first to Thirty-third Streets (see illustration facing contents page). 
Located only one block from Broadway, in the heart of New York’s 
hotel and retail shopping district. All parts of the city can be easily 
reached by the Sixth or Ninth Avenue elevated lines, or by surface 
lines connecting with the Thirty-fourth Street crosstown line, 
reached by special entrance to station. Connections for lower New 
York are made via Manhattan Transfer (near Newark), Jersey City 
and the Hudson Tunnels of the McAdoo System. Ample train 
service from Pennsylvania Station to Flatbush Avenue Station of 
the Long Island Railroad for Brooklyn passengers. 


Long Island R. R. discharges its passengers in Brooklyn at a 
station in Flatbush Avenue (see Brooklyn) and discharges its pas- 
sengers in New York at the Pennsylvania Station, 32d Street and 
Seventh Avenue. 


The New York & Putnam R. R. is a division of the New York 
Central & Hudson River R. R. It runs northward through West- 
chester and Putnam Counties to Brewster’s, where it joins the Harlem 
R. R. and connects with the New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R. 
for Hartford and eastern points. Station in New York is at 155th 
Street terminus of the Sixth and Ninth Avenue elevated railways, 
but it has a station for the receiving and delivering of baggage at 
the elevated railway station at Eighth Avenue and 53d Street. 
Trains are run frequently to High Bridge, Van Cortlandt Park, and 
the suburban stations on the Yonkers branch, which is known as 
the Yonkers Rapid Transit Line. Tickets reading ‘‘from the Grand 
Central Terminal to Yonkers’”’ are also good on this line from 155th 
Street to Yonkers. 


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on through tickets from the South or West to New England, or vice 
versa. All such tickets contain a coupon, entitling the passenger to 
a ride in the coaches of the New York Transfer Company across the 
city, between the Grand Central Depot and any ferry station, or to 
any hotel or suitable stopping point between these points. These 
coaches meet all the great express trains, and may be taken advan- 
tage of as indicated above. Public carriages may be hired of the 
train-solicitors above mentioned at the following rates: ‘Two horse 
coaches, by the hour, $1.50 for the first hour or part, and 75 cents for 
each succeeding half-hour or part; by the mile, $1 for the first mile 
or part, and 4o cents for each succeeding half-mile or part. One- 
horse cabs, by the hour, $1 for the first, and 50 cents for each succeed- 
ing half-hour or part; by the mile, 50 cents for the first mile, and 25 
cents for each succeeding half-mile, Lately the Pennsylvaniaand N.Y. 
Central railroads have each introduced a system of light cabs to carry 
passengers to and from their stations at the uniform rate of about 25 
cents a mile, the former carrying two persons for one fare. Legal 
fares for public hacks, including electric motor-cabs, are as follows: 


Cass—By the mile.—25 cts. for the first half-mile, and 25 cts. for 
each additional half-mile. For stops over five minutes and not ex- 
ceeding fifteen, 25 cts.; for longer stops, 25 cts. for each fifteen min- 
utes. Ly the hour.—With the privilege of going and stopping to 
suit yourself, $1 for the first hour, or part thereof, and 50 cts. for 
each additional half-hour. This tariff includes Hansom cabs. 


CoacHes—By the mzle.—One dollar for the first mile, or part 
thereof; and each additional half-mile or part thereof, 40 cts. By dis- 
tance for ‘‘stops” 38 cts. for each fifteen minutes. For brief stops not 
over five minutes, nocharge. Ay the hour.—$1.50 first hour or part 
thereof, and each succeeding half-hour or part thereof, 75 cts. From 
‘line balls” one or two passengers, to any point south of 59th St. $2; 


each additional passenger, 50 cts.; north of 59th St. each additional 
mile 50 cts. 


Taxicabs.—These are automobile landaulettes, seating four people 
comfortably, and are painted bright red, with green panels on the 
door. ‘There is only one tariff, no extra charge being made whether 
one or four passengers are being carried, either by day or night. 
Fares are plainly indicated on the Taximeter, so the passenger 
cannot be overcharged. 


TaxiIcAB TarIFF.—First half mile or fraction thereof, 30 cents. 
Each quarter mile thereafter, to cents. Each six minutes of waiting, 
ro cents. For each package or trunk carried outside, 20cents. These 


Taxicabs can be ordered from railroad stations or from the leading 
hotels. 


Baggage Express.—On all important incoming trains, a uniformed 
solicitor for either the N. Y. Transfer Co, or Westcott’s baggage 
delivery company passes through the train seeking orders. He will 
take your checks, giving a receipt therefor, and deliver your baggage 
to any part of New York, Brooklyn, or Jersey City. The payment 
may be made in advance or on receipt of the article at the house 


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which will be in the course of two hours, ordinarily, if not earlier. 
In addition to these transfer companies, several other carriers have 
offices near the great stations and steamer-landings. ‘These express- 
men usually charge the same rates as those above mentioned. Out- 
side of these are a legion of small proprietors of ‘‘ expresses,” and 
individual owners of job-wagons, whose charge is only 25 cents 
a piece. They are honest, asarule, but their responsibility should 
be inquired into before baggage is intrusted to them. 

Ordinary baggage may be taken with you if you employ a hack- 
man, and the delay, otherwise inevitable, will be avoided. The hotel 
omnibuses get baggage for their patrons very promptly also. For 
those who do not hire cabs or carriages, that American institution, 
the ‘‘ express delivery service,” is easily available here. 

Caution.— Never give up your checks to any one but a uniformed 
train-solicitor, or a regular office agent or porter of either the trans- 
portation company which holds the baggage or of the express com- 
pany to which you mean to intrust it; and always take a receipt; 
and never give up your checks, if you claim your baggage yourself, 
to any person except the uniformed baggagemen of the railway or 
steamboat line by which you have traveled. If you expect to meet 
or visit friends in the city, who are residents, the best way probably 
is to keep your checks and let your friend manage the delivery of 
your baggage for you. 

Outgoing Baggage.— When you get ready to leave the city, an 
expressman will call at your house, and take and deliver your bag- 
gage at any station for from 25 to 4ocentsa piece. Dodd’s and 
Westcott’s companies (both of which have many branch offices in 
New York and in all the adjoining cities) will check your baggage 
at the house to your destination in any part of the country, so that 
you need have no trouble with it at the railway station; but you must 
have bought your railway ticket in advance, and must pay 1o cents 
additional for the accommodation. 


Hotels. 


New York has always been proud of its hotels, which are almost 
numberless, and which year by year increase in excellence of service 
and splendor of appointments. They are scattered from the Battery 
to Harlem River, but few of prominence are farther than a square or 
two from Broadway or Fifth avenue, and all the foremost are 
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II. 
GETTING ABOUT THE. -ClUPY. 
Elevated Rai/ways. 


General Remarks.— The system of elevated railroads, which 
carry trains of cars run by electricity, now consists of four main 
double-track lines, and a few short branches. All come together at 
the southern extremity of the island in a terminal station at South 
Ferry alongside the Battery. ‘Two lines are on the West Side and 
two on the East, and all reach to the Harlem River, one (the ‘‘ Sub- 
urban’’) continuing beyond, through to Fordham. 

These trains run at intervals of two or three minutes (or even less, 
during the busiest hours of morning and evening) all the day and 
evening; and from midnight to sunrise the intervals between trains 
are not more than five minutes. Strangers should be careful to 
note the sign at the foot of the station-stairs which informs them 
whether that station is for ‘‘ up-town” or ‘‘down-town”’ trains; but 
if they forget and find themselves on the wrong side, they will be 
passed in free at the opposite station if they explain the case to the 


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gateman where the mistake is made. The fare on all roads and for 
all distances is 5 cents. <A ticket must be bought and thrown into 
the gateman’s glass ‘‘ chopper” box at the entrance to the platform. 
On the West side, certain trains going down town take the Ninth Av. 
route, while others go via Sixth Av.; others proceed only as far as 
Cortlandt or Rector Streets, instead of going to the ferry. Up-town 
West Side trains go both to Harlem and:58th St. (Central Park). On 
the East Side, going down, some trains go to South Ferry and others 
to the City Hall; and up-town, both Second and Third Av., trains use 
the same track from the Battery to Chatham Sq., and must be distin- 
guished. The gai.emen usually call out the destination of each train 
as it approaches, but anyone may quickly learn to recognize the signs 
on the cars, and the confusion is really not as great as it appears to 
be. All of the roads are now consolidated and under the single 
ownership and management of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co., 
whose general offices are at 13 Park Row. 
The stations are as follows: 


Ninth Avenue Line.—South Ferry, Battery Pl., Rector, Cort- 
landt, Barclay, Warren, Franklin, Desbrosses, Houston, Christopher, 
W. 14th, 23d, 30th, 34th, 42d, s5oth, 59th, 66th, 72d, 81st, 93d, ro4th, 
116th, 125th, 130th, 135th, rgoth, 145th, and 155th Sts. 


Sixth Avenue Line.—South Ferry, Battery Pl., Rector and Cort- 
landt Sts., Park Pl., Chambers, Franklin, Bleecker, 8th, 14th, 18th, 
23d, 28th, 33d, 42d, and scth Sts. (branch to 58th St. and Sixth Av.), 53d 
St. and Eighth Av., 59th St. and Columbus Av., 66th, 72d, 81st, 93d, 
vo4th, 116th, 125th, 130th, 135th, 140th, 145th, and 155th Sts. 


Third Avenue Line.—South Ferry, Hanover Sq., Fulton St., 
Franklin Sq., Chatham Sq. (whence branch to City Hall), Canal, 
Grand, Houston, E. oth, 14th, 18th, 23d, 28th, 34th, and qed Sts. 
(branch to Grand Central Station), 47th, 53d, soth, 67th, 76th, 84th, 
89th, 99th, 106th, 116th, 125th, and 129th Sts., thence to 133d, 138th, 
143d, 149th, 156th, 161st, 166th, and 169th Sts., Wendover Av., 174th 
and 177th Sts. (Tremont Av.), 183d St., Pelham Av. (Fordham), 
and Bronx Park Station. 


Second Avenue Line.—South Ferry, Hanover Sq., Fulton St., 
Franklin Sq., Chatham Sq.. (branch to City Hall), Canal, Grand, 
Rivington, 1st, 8th, 14th, roth, 23d, 34th, ged, soth, 57th, 65th, 8oth, 
86th, 92d, ggth, 111th, 117th, 121st, 127th, and 129th Sts., thence via 
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Subway Rapid Transit Railroad. — With only a few months’ 
delay over the time set by the contractors, New York’s great under- 
ground rapid transit system was, on October 27, 1904, opened to the 
public. This system is one of the greatest municipal undertakings 
of modern times, and, it is estimated, cost fifty millions of dollars. 
The double-track system for both express and local trains offers 
unexcelled means of rapid transit that has already done much to 


EIGHTEENTH STREET STATION — Showing concrete and steel construction. 


relieve the congestion on the elevated and surface lines, The trains 
are run frequently, and the running time of express trains from 
Brooklyn Bridge to 125th St. is about 15 minutes. Local trains, also, 
make good time, stopping at convenient stations. For those wishing 
to reach the Grand Central Station from Brooklyn Bridge or the City 


24 HANDY GOULDIOADO ONE Wag Ode Te mate, 


Hall, the subway affords the quickest and most convenient means ot 
transit. ‘Tickets are purchased at the underground booths and 
deposited in chopper boxes, the same as on the elevated road 
The tourist will be well repaid by a trip through the bore of this 
greatest of all underground railroads, from the Brooklyn Bridge 
to any of the up-town stations and return, See map for list of 
stations and routes. 


Tunnels. 


Manhattan & Brooklyn Tunnel is a continuation of the Subway 
Rapid Transit Railroad, under the East River from Broad St. to 
“latbush and Atlantic Av. station of the Long: Island Railway. 

New York & New Jersey Railroad Tunnel connects Manhattan 
at Morton St., with Jersey City at 15th St. This line was opened 
Febuary 25, 1908, and extends under Greenwich St., and Christo- 
pher, to 33d St., Terminal, via Sixth Avenue. 

The Hudson and Manhattan Tunuels, from Cortlandt St., New 
York City, to Montgomery St., Jersey City. Trolleys will run from 
Cortlandt St. to Newark and other suburban towns. On the Jersey 
side, the Pennsylvania, Erie, and the Lackawanna connect with 
these tunnels, and the New York & New Jersey Railroad Tunnel. 

The Belmont Tunnel, at 42d St., to Long Island, will connect with 
the trolleys in Queens County. 

‘fhe map in the back of the book shows route of all the above 
Tunnels. ‘ 


Surface Car Routes. 


Lines of cars run northand south between the Battery or City Hall 
and the upper part of the island on every avenue except Fifth, and 
most of them extend to the Harlem River. The #e/¢ line follows the 
water-front on both sides as far north as 59th St., where it crosses the 
city. The Second, Third, and Fourth Avenue lines go up the 
Bowery from the City Hall as far as the Cooper Union, and there 
diverge to their respective avenues. The last named follows Fourth 
Av. to 44th St. and thence follows Madison Ay. to Harlem. Care 
should be taken on the Second and Fourth Av. lines, coming down 
town, to learn whether the car goes farther than Astor Place, where 
a transfer will, however, be given south on Broadway. The #road- 
way line runs along Broadway and Seventh Av. (above q4th St.) 


GETTING ABOUT THE CITY. 23 


between the Battery (South Ferries) and s9th St. (Central Park). The 
Columbus Av. cars follow the same course as far as 53d St., where 
they turn west to Columbus (Ninth) Av., and thence go north to rioth 
St., where passengers are transferred to the Lenox Av. line or East 
River lines. The Lexington Av. line follows Broadway from the 
Battery to 23d St. and then turns east to Lexington Av. and pursues 
that avenue to the Harlem River. Lines run from the Post Office to 
and along Broadway, Seventh and Lenox Aves., and their cars con- 
tinue along or connect with the Columbus Av., Amsterdam Av., or 
Boulevard lines, which run north over Morningside Heights to 
125th. St. Another line, from 125th St., extends up Amsterdam 
Av. to Fort George and connects with a line that runs to 225th St. 
and Broadway. 

Cross-Town Lines reach from river to river at intervals of half a 
mile (or less, down town), connecting all ferries, steamship landings, 
railway stations, and hotels with one another, either directly or by 
exchanging transfers with north and south routes. 

Brooklyn Street and Elevated Cars of almost all lines may be 


boarded at the New York entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge. 


Lines North of Harlem River.—The rapid occupation of the terri- 
tory north of the Harlem River, successively enlarged by recent 
annexations to the present distant boundaries of Greater New York, 
has been accompanied and aided by a rapid extension of electric 
trolley lines, which now make all its parts accessible. These converge 
upon two points of contact with the city below the Harlem, viz.: 
Harlem Bridge (at Third Av.) and Central Bridge. All these lines 
as well as the line terminating at 135th St. and 8th Av., interchange 
transfers at many junction points. The principal lines are as follows: 


Southern Boulevard & West Farms,—East from Harlem Bridge. 
through Morrisania, along the Southern Boulevard to Crotona Park, 
West Farms, and Bronx Park. 

Westchester & Mount Vernon Line.—Along Third Av. from 
Harlem Bridge to Westchester, Mount Vernon Line via Third Av. to 
Fordham Square, meeting Webster Av. car going to Mount Vernon, 
west of Bronx Park, through Bronxdale, Williamsbridge, Wakefield, 
and Washingtonville, to Mount Vernon and connections beyond, to 
Yonkers, White Plains, Tarrytown, Eastchester, and New Rochelle. 

Fordham Line.—Out Third Av., past Crotona Park to Fordham, 
then north on Webster Av. to Bedford Park and Woodlawn. 


26 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


To High Bridge, etc.—North from Harlem Bridge along Willis 
Av. to r61st St., west to Sedgwick Av., and north to High Bridge. 
This road is striving to continue its line up the elevated eastern bank 
of the Harlem to.Kingsbridge, where a line is already laid. 

Fifth Avenue Automobile Stages run along Fifth Av. between 
Washington Sq. and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 81st St. In 
summer riding is very comfortable and many interesting places can 
be seen. Fare is 10 cents. 


Ferries. 


An alphabetical list of the ferries by which Manhattan is connected 
with the surrounding shores is as follows: 


To Astorza.— From E. 92d St., every 15 minutes, 
Atlantic Av. Ferry.—see Brooklyn, 3. 
Barclay St. Ferry.— See Hoboken, tl. 
To Bedloe’s Island (Statue of Liberty).— From the Battery, hourly 
1077-30.) 101: 
To Blackwell's [sland.— Foot of E. 26th St., twice daily. 
To College Point —From E. goth St. and E. 134th St., hourly during 
daylight, calling at North Beach. 
To Brookiyz.—As follows: (See Map.) 
1. To 39th St., South Brooklyn, from the Battery. 
. To Hamilton Av., from the Battery. 
. To Atlantic Av., from the Battery. 
. To Montague St. from Wall St. (does not run evenings or 
Sundays). 
. To Fulton St. from Fulton St. 
. To Main St., from Catherine St. 
. To Grand St., E. D., from Houston St. 
. To Greenpoint (Brooklyn, E. D.) from E. roth St. 
. To Greenpoint, E. D., from E. 23d St. 
Catherine Ferry.—See Brooklyn, 7. 
Christopher St. Ferry.— See Hoboken, 2. 
Communipaw ferry.— See Jersey City, i. 
Cortlandt 3ST. Perry SOG) EF sey CLL) pen. 
Desbrosses St. Ferry. = See Jersey City, "4. 
To Fort Lee.— From W. 120th St., half-hourly via Undercliff. 
Franklin St. Ferry.—See Weehawken, 1. 
fulton Ferry.—See Brooklyn, 5. 
Yo Governor's /sland.—.From the Battery, hourly. 
Grand St. Ferry.— See Brooklyn, 9 and tio. 
To Greenpoint.— See Brooklyn, 12 and 14. 
flamilton Lerry.— See Brooklyn, 2. 


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To Hoboken.— As follows: 

1fLo First:Sti(D5 be & Wok. R:)-from Barclayrst 

2. To the same point, from Christopher St. 

To 14th St., from West 23d St. 

To date s Point (Long Island R. R.)—See Long Island City. 
oe, Czty.—As follows: (See Map.) 

. To Communipaw (Central R. R. of N. J.), from Liberty St. 
. To Montgomery St. (Pennsylvania R. R.) from Cortlandt St. 
To the same point, from Desbrosses St. 
To the same point, from W. 23d St. 
To Pavonia Av. (‘‘Erie’’ R. R.), from Chambers St. 
seLOs bay ot.; trom Weistheoe 
7. To Pavonia Av. (‘‘Erie’”’ R. R.), from W. 23d St. 


To Long Island City.—As follows: 

1. To Hunter’s Point (Long Island R. R.), from E. 34th St. 

To North (or Bowery) Beach.— See College Point. 

Pavonia Ferry.— See Jersey City, 4 and 4. 

To South Brooklyn.— See Brooklyn, rand 2. 

To Staten Island.—To St. George’s (S. I. Rapid Transit R. R.) 
from South Ferry, halfeshourly to midnight and to Stapleton from 
South Ferry. 

Twenty-third St.— See Brooklyn, 13 and 14, and Jersey City, 5 and 7. 

Vi all St. Ferry.—See Brooklyn, 4. 

To Weehawken: 

A 1. To West Shore R. R. station, from Desbrosses St. and W. 
42d St. 

2. To North Weehawken, from W. 42d St. 


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The Coolest and Most Enjoyable Place Along the 
Atlantic Coast for the Summer Sojourn 


LONG ISLAND 


Reached from New York (Pennsylvania Station, 7th Ave. and 32nd St.) 
by the Long Island Railroad, the steel highway that leads to famous 
resorts; fresh and salt water fishing and hunting grounds; the best 
automobile roads in America; to the grand old ocean and its surf- 
beaten beaches; the majestic sail-dotted Sound; its great and small 
picturesque bays; its inland lakes, rivers and streams, its woods, 
hills and dales, valleys, bluffs and pleasant pastures—in all, the place 
with over 400 miles of shore line where each year is entertained the 
vast army of people seeking HEALTH, REST and RHCREATION. 


Send 6c. to General Passenger Agent for book descriptive of the Island, 
with list of hotels, boarding houses and other information. 


LONG ISLAND RAILROAD 


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Bridges 


The Original Brooklyn Bridge.—This magnificent bridge spans 
the East River and connects New York and Brooklyn. Its terminus 
in New York is opposite City Hall Park, and directly reached by the 
City Hall branch of the Third Av. El. Ry., and by all the surface 
cars that go to the Post Office. Park Place is the nearest station on 
the Sixth Av. El. Ry. The terminus in Brooklyn is in the new plaza 
at Fulton and Sand Sts., where all the elevated railways of that city 
have their termini in a covered union station, and can be reached 
without descending to the ground, and where the cars of nearly every 
surface line are within a few steps. The bridge carries two drives, a 
broad, free footwalk, a double-track cable railroad, and an electric 
loop-line. 

Bridge Cars.—The bridge railroad carried the larger number 
of persons who crossed the bridge until lately. The cars run in trains 
of three at intervals of a minute or less during the busiest hours, and 
cross in six minutes. The fare is 3 cents, two tickets for 5 cents. 
Since the summer of 1898, the trains of the Brooklyn elevated rail- 
ways have run to the Manhattan end of the bridge, where the plat- 
forms were enlarged and rearranged to accommodate the traffic. 
Among these elevated trains some are run through at short intervals 
in summer to Rockaway Beach over the Fulton St. line, and others to 
Coney Island over the Fifth Av. line. 

Trolley Cars began early in 1898 to run from Brooklyn to the 
Manhattan end of the bridge, where they pass around loops and 
return to Brooklyn, where each is shunted to itsown line. Noextra 
fare is required on the bridge; the tracks are laid, one on each road- 
way; and all the Brooklyn lines make equal use of the privilege. 


New East River Bridge.—Crossing the East River from the foot 
of Broome St., Manhattan, to Broadway, Brooklyn, the terminals 
extending half a mile inland on each side of the river. The two 
supporting towers are 1,600 feet apart. They are, above the water 
line, made of open-work steel, and, from a short distance, look 
fragile, but in each of them is 6,000,000 pounds of steel, and their 
foundations and the anchorages of the cables are of the utmost 
solidity and safety. 

Queensboro Bridge.—Opened June 12, 1909. This bridge spans 
East River and Blackwell’s Island from Second Ave., between 59th 
and 6oth Sts., Manhattan to Jane St., Long Island City. The 
estimated cost was over $12,000,000. 


82 HANDY GUIDE TOWNE UAYORTRCIZEN, 


* 


POST OFFICE AND POSTAL FACILITIES. 


The General Post Office is at the junction of Broadway and Park 
Row, next the City Hall, and is reached from up town by all the 
north and south surface railways, and by the Third Av. El. Ry. to 
City Hall statior, or by the Sixth Av. line to Park Place. The ‘‘gen- 
eral delivery” (poste restante) windows are near the front door; the 
stamp selling windows on the Broadway side. Letters can be asked 
for and stamps bought all night as well as during the day, except on 
Sunday. The money-order, registered-letter, and other special 
offices are upstairs, and are open from 9 to 5. The pneumatic dis- 
patch is in the basement. The top stories contain Federal Courts, etc. 

The site of this huge building (which is a conspicuous example of 
the unlovely structures erected for the government when Mr. Mullet 
was supervising architect) was formerly the southern point of City 
Hall Park. The structure is five stories high above the sidewalk— 
one story being in the Mansard roof — besides a basement. 

Branch Post Offices.— General details in regard to post-office man- 
agement and the handling of mails have no place here, brut a few 
facts may be useful to the stranger as to the branch post offices, 
called Statzons. ‘These branches are scattered all over the city, and 
form the local centers for collection and distribution of mail by the 
carriers. They are open until 8 p. m. on week days, and from 8 to 
to a.m. on Sundays. Stamps, money orders, postal notes and 
registered letters may be bought there, but no letters are given to 
callers at these stations, any letter addressed to a station being 
delivered to the address by the carrier, or, if this is not known, 
returned to the General Post Office to be advertised, etc. For any 
questions as to the delivery of your mail by the carrier, go to the 
station in whose district you live. Following is a list of branch offices: 


A, 136and 138 Greene St. 

&, Grand and Attorney Sts. 

C, Cor. Hudson and West 13th Sts. 
Wall Street Station, 60 Wall St. 

D, Fourth Av. and t2th St. 


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34 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


FE N@u 110 We 320sot. 

fF, 149 East 34th St. 

G, 219 West sist St. 

H, Lexington Av. and 4sthSt. (Second-class matter received.) 
J, Columbus Av., cor. 105th St. 

J, 2309 Eighth Av., cor. 124th St. 

K, 202 East 88th St. 


NV, Cor. Broadway and 60th St. 

O, 122 Fifth Av. (Second-class matter received. \ 
P, New Custom House, Bowling Green. 
FR, Morrisania, Third Avy. and 1soth St. 
S, Broadway, cor. Howard St. 

T, 3319 Third Av. 

U,. Third Av., cor. 103d St. 

V, West Broadway and Beach St. 

Be 498 Columbus Ay., cor 84th St. 

Berssthest 

v 1160 Third Av. 

Bedford Park. 

City Island. 

College Station, 140 St., near 8th Av. 

Foreign Branch. West St., near Morton St. 

High Bridge, Sedgwick Av., near Depot PI. 
Hudson Terminal Station, 30 Church St. 

Jay St. Station, Greenwich and Jay Sts. 
Kingsbridge. 

Madison Sqa., Metropolitan Building, Fourth Av. and 23d St. 
Times Sa. Station, 231, We ooth st: 

Tompkins Sa. Station, Ave. Band 12th St. 
Tremont Station, 1931 Washington Av. 
University Heights. 

Washington Bridge Station, 2414 Amsterdam Av. 


In addition to this, some fifty sub-stations have lately been estab- 
lished—principally in drug stores. These are primarily for the sale 
of stamps, the registering of letters, and the sale of money orders, 
but there are also collection boxes at each sub-station. 


By means of all these aids to rapid circulation of mail, letters will 
be delivered in any part of the city within two or three hours of mail- 
ing at the utmost, and if addressed to a point within the same dis- 
*rict where mailed, in a much shorter time. 

The letter rate to any part of the city is 2 cents an ounce. 

Delivery by carrier, to specified house and number, or where the 
address is known. 


Telegraphs, Telephones, and Messenger Service. 


Telegraphs.—All the land telegraph and ocean cable companies 
have their offices and many branch stations in New York. 7Zkhe 
Western Union Headquarters is in the huge building at the corner 
of Broadway and Dey St., just below the Post Office. At Fifth Av. 
and 22d St. and’at 16 Broad St. are the principal branch offices. 
connected with the central office at Dey St. by pneumatic tubes. 


GHT LING ABO CO sala Ee et Ya 35 


THE BOWERY — From Grana Street Elevated Station. — 


The Postal Telegraph and Commercztal Cable Companies have 
their central office and main operating room in their new building at 
Broadway and Murray St., and many branches throughout the city. 
Telephones are everywhere. ‘The system covering Greater New 
York and vicinity, which is operated by the New York Telephone 
Company, has over 200,000 stations. Pay stations for the accommo- 
dation of travelers and the public in general may be found in all 
railroad and ferry stations, hotels, stores, and other convenient places. 


The American Dzestrict and the Mutual District Telegraph 
Companies have offices scattered all over town, generally in conjunc- 
tion with the Western Union offices, where uniformed messengers are 
on hand to deliver telegrams, answer calls, and perform every variety 
of service for which a boy is capable. The charge is regulated by a 
tariff, printed in a book carried by the boys, and it is well to learn 
in advance what will be the charge for the service you wish done. 


1Il. 
THEATERS AND THE OPERA. 


New York now has about 60 theaters, properly so called (including the 
opera), besides several places where similar entertainments are often 
given, Stock companies are maintained, however, only ata very few, 
the metrcpolitan stage being almost entirely given up to companies 
led by some star, which give a certain play or series of plays for a 
certain time and then yield the boards to a different lessee company 
and play, perhaps of an entirely different character, ‘This has com- 
pletely upset the traditions of the older theaters—where the public 
knew just what kind and quality of play might be expected, whatever 
its name—and has stamped little individuality upon any of the new 
ones. The usual prices are $2.00 for the orchestra or best balcony 
seats, $1.00 admission without a secured seat, and 50 cents to $1.00 


for the upper galleries. These prices are increased for grand opera 
and special performances. 


$ a eS at = ae — 
HIPPODROME—44th Street and 6th Avenue. 
36 


PLACES OF AMUSEMENT 


NAME 

Academy of Music . 

Alhambra Theater 

American League Baseball Park : 
American Music Hall 

Astor Theater 

Belasco Theater 

Bijou Theater 

Broadway Theater 

Carnegie Hall 

Casino Theater 

Century Theater 

Cohan’s Theater 

Colonial Theater ‘ ; : : 
Columbia Theater : : : - : 
Comedy Theater 

Criterion Theater 

Daly’s Theater 

Eden Musee 

Empire Theater 

Fifth Ave. Theater 

Fulton Theater 

Gaiety Theater 

Garden Theater 

Garrick Theater 

Globe Theater . 

Grand Opera House 
Hammerstein’s Victoria Theater ; 
Harris Theater. : 5 
Herald Square Theater 
Hippodrome ; 

Hudson Theater 

Irving Place Theater 
Knickerbocker Theater 

Liberty Theater 

Little Theater 

Lyceum Theater 

Lyric Theater : ‘ 

Madison Square Garden 
Manhattan Opera House 

Maxine Elliott’s Theater 
Metropolitan Opera House 
Murray Hill Theater 

National League Baseball Park (Pola Grounds) . 
New Amsterdam Theater , ; : 
New York Theater . 

Park 

Playhouse . ; 

Republic Theater : 
Thirty-ninth Street Theater 
Wallack’s Theater 

Weber’s Theater 

West End Theater 

Winter Garden 


LOCATION 

. 14th St. and Irving Place 
126th St. and Seventh Ave. 
168th St. and Broadway 

. 42d St. and Eighth Ave. 
Broadway and 45th St. 
44th St. near Broadway 
Broadway and 80th St. 
Broadway and 4lst St. 
57th St. and 7th Ave. 
Broadway and 39th St. 


"62d St. and Central Park West 


Broadway and 43d St. 

. Broadway and 62d St. 
Broadway and 47th St. 
41st St. near Broadway 
Broadway and 44th St. 
Broadway and 30th St. 
23d St. near Broadway 
Broadway and 40th St. 
Broadway and 28th St. 
46th St. near Broadway 
Broadway and 46th St. 
Madison Ave. and 27th St. 
. 80th St. near Broadway 
Broadway and 46th St. 

. 23d St. and Highth Ave. 
42d St. and Seventh Ave. 
42d St. near Highth Ave. 
Broadway and 35th St. 
Sixth Ave. and 48d St. 
44th St. near Broadway 
Irving Place and 15th St. 
Broadway and 38th St. 

. 42d St. near Broadway 
44th St. West of Broadway 
45th St. near Broadway 
42d St. and Seventh Ave. 
Madison Ave. and 26th St. 
34th St. near Kighth Ave. 
39th St. near Broadway 

: Broadway and 39th St. 
Lexington Ave. and 42d St. 
. 155th St. and 8th Ave. 
42d St. near Broadway 
Broadway and 45th St. 
Broadway and 59th St. 
48th St. near Broadway 
42d St. near Broadway 
39th St. near Broadway 
Broadway and 30th St. 
Broadway and 29th St. 
125th St., West of 8th Ave. 
50th St. and Broadway 


88 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY, 


METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE. 


MUSIC, LECTURES, AND EXHIBITIONS. 


The Madison Square Garden.—This structure, opened in June. 
1890, is of a class by itself, since it affords accommodations for a 
variety of entertainments. It occupies the block diagonally opposite 
the northeast corner of Madison Square, bounded by Madison Av., 
27th St., Fourth Av., and 26th St., the site of the old garden where 
circuses, athletic matches, and exhibitions were wont to be seen. 
The new building is a handsome structure of buff brick and light 
terra cotta; is constructed wholly of masonry, iron, and glass; is 
lighted by electricity, and is absolutely fire-proof, At the southwest 
corner a tower rises to the height of 300 feet, ascended by elevators 
and staircases and provided with summit balconies commanding a 
wide landscape. The building contains an amphitheater, a theater, 
a restaurant, a concert hall, a roof garden, and several smaller rooms, 
with all possible conveniences for public and private entertainments. 
On special occasions all portions of this structure, except the theater 


AHEATERS AND OTHER AMUSEMENTS. 39 


can be so arranged as tocommunicate. The Amphitheater is 310 
by 194 feet and 80 feet high, with an arena containing a track one- 
tenth of a mile in length. It has a permanent seating capacity for 
6,000 people, inclusive of 150 private boxes, and for conventions and 
similar purposes, can be arranged to seat 12,000. Under the per- 
manent seats, and extending around the entire Amphitheater, is a 
continuous hall with upward of 30,000 square feet available for 
exhibitions and fairs. Here the great fancy balls are held, the annual 
horse, dog, and flower shows, the circus in spring, autumn conven- 
tions, and midsummer concerts. The Restaurant, on the ground 
floor in the Madison Av. and 26th St. corner of the building, is 80 x 
go feet in dimensions, and is handsomely decorated. Its kitchen is 
on the roof. Over the restaurant is the Concert Hall, seating 1,500 
people; it is also intended to be used as a ball or banqueting room, 
and for this purpose connecting supper-rooms and every convenience 
have been provided. The Roof Garden and Theater have been 
elsewhere described. 

Concert Halls.— First among halls devoted primarily to musical 
productions is the Carnegze Musztc Hall, a beautiful building on 
Seventh Av. and 57th St. It was founded by Andrew Carnegie, has 
cost over $2,000,000, was opened in May, 18go, and has an auditorium 
which will seat 3,000 persons, besides three smaller halls for recitals 
and chamber music, and a series of elegant lodge-rooms. While the 
main purpose of the institution is the encouragement of superior 
music, and the popular orchestral concerts of Damrosch and Seidl 
made it widely known, its halls are also to be rented for conventions, 
lectures, etc. Other similar institutions of lesser size are Mendels- 


sohn Hall, 119 W. 4oth St.; Berkeley Lyceum, 19 W. 44th St., and 
Lyric Hall, Sixth Av., near 42d St., all of which are constantly used 
for lectures and meetings, as well as concerts. The ball rooms of 
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, St. Regis, Delmonico’s and Sherry’s are 
the scenes not only of balls and banquets, but of fashionable par- 
lor lectures, musicales, etc. 


Musical Societies.—The oldest musical society in the city is said 
to be the German Liederkranz, founded in 1847. The society has 
about 1,600 members, and a female chorus of about 80 voices. Its 
club-house is in E. 58th St., between Park and Lexington Avs. The 
Liederkranz gives at its own hall three concerts, making it a point to 
perform at each a novelty with their full chorus. 


MADISON SQUARE GARDEN — Madison and Fourth Avenues, 
West Twenty-sixth and West Twenty-seventh Streets. 
McKim, Mead & White, Architects. 


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THEATERS AND OTHER AMUSEMENTS. 41 


The Arion is another well-known singing and social club, much 
like the Liederkranz, though less serious in its musical manifesta- 
tions. There are some 800 members, 150 of whom are in the choir, 
and the club-house is a handsome edifice at Park Av. and 59th St. 

Less generally known are the Beethoven M&annerchor, 210 sth St.; 
the Mdnnerchor, 203 E. 56th St. the Mendelssohn Glee Club, 113 W. 
4oth St.; the New York Sdngerbunde, 138 E. 57th St.; the Oratorio 
Society, Seventh Av. near W. 56th St.;and the Philharmonic Society, 
Carnegie Hall. The concerts of the last-named reach the climax. 

Lectures in New York are frequent, but occasional, and the adver- 
tisements in the daily papers, especially in 7he Trzbune and The 
Lvening Post, should be scrutinized daily by anyone interested. 
Carnegie Hall and the hall of the Y. M. C. A. building are the usual 
places for their delivery, but many are given in churches, and in 
theaters on Sunday, especially in the Grand Opera House. A long 
course of weekly lectures is sustained by the Y. M. C. A. each winter; 
the Cooper Union supports a free course of lectures on popular sci- 
ence and kindred subjects, and the City provides hundreds of free 
illustrated lectures in schoolhouses each winter. At Columbia College 
the lectures to the higher classes are often open to the public, too. 
The lecture hall of the American Museum of Natural History is 
occupied nearly every night in winter by illustrated lectures on travel 
and scientific topics, always free, and exceedingly popular. They 
are given by the Museum and the Scientific Alliance. But perhaps 
the most interesting thing in this line, to a visitor, is an evening in 
the great basement-hall of the Cooper Union. Here are held not 
only the largest political mass-meetings that assemble anywhere in 
the city under cover (it was here that Lincoln made his renowned 
‘speech in 1860); but it is the usual forum for addresses by the orators 
of all sorts of reforms and social and religious zsms. It is an enor- 
mous room, and some of the crowds which assemble there exhibit, in 
a way that can be seen nowhere else at a glance, the cosmupolitan 
polyglot character of the metropolis. A Sunday-night meeting at the 
Cooper Union is one of the ‘‘ sights” of New York. 

The Lenox Lyceum at Madison Ay. and s9th St., and the Grand 
Central Palace, Lexington Av. and 43d St., are large halls devoted 
to fairs, bicycle tournaments, and similar entertainments. 

Museums and Galieries —The two great museums of the city are 
describea as a part of Central Park (see Parks, ArT and LIBRARIES}, 


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PUBLIC MUSEUMS. 


Ail the parks of the enlarged city are under control of a commission 
of three members, appointed by the mayor, but each commissioner 
has large independent powers in reference to his own district —one 
superintending parks and public grounds in the boroughs of Man- 
hattan and Richmond; a second, those of Brooklyn and Queens 
boroughs, and the third, those of Bronx borough. The parks have 
always-been an object of great solicitude on the part of the people, 
who have guarded them against encroachments with jealous care, 
and have willingly spent vast sums upon their improvement, espe- 
cially upon those north of the Harlem, which in a few years will 
become a most beautiful series of woodland spaces reserved in the 
midst of the fast advancing city, connected by delightful drives or 
‘‘parkways,” and in some instances reached by steamboats on East 
River. Ultimately these parks will be connected with Brooklyn’s 
systems by a bridge and boulevard. The demolition of whole blocks 
of buildings in the crowded lower part of the city, to make smail 
parks for the benefit of the tenement house population, is another 
evidence of the great value New York places upon parks. 


Battery Park, Bowling Green, and Jeannette Sguare, at the 
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44 HANDY (GCOIDE- TONE WV OR Tare 


southern extremity of the island, and Cz¢y //a// Park and the open 
area in front of T7he Trzbune building, called Printing-house 
Sguare, are described elsewhere. <Adbisnagdon Square, where EKighth 
Av. turns out of Hudson St., was at one time a fashionable locality, 
and /ackson Square, where Hudson St., W. 13th St., and Green- 
wich Av. intersect, is a good dourgeozs neighborhood, largely inhab- 
ited by Scotchmen, whose Caledonian club-house overlooks it. 
Washington, Union, Madzson, and Stuyvesant squares, and Bry- 
ant and Gramercy parks, will be described in the ‘‘ Tour oF THE 
City.” Tompkins Sguare is a space on the East Side, some ten 
acres in extent, between avenues A and B, and 7th and toth Sts., 
which has lately been improved, and will in time become a park of 
great beauty. It isthe evening resort of the vast population of wage- 
workers who live in its neighborhood, as is the new park near the 
Five Points, and Corlear’s Hook Park, The Hamilton Fish Park, 
and the W. H. Seward Park for other dense populations on the 
East side. On summer nights, when the public bands play, these 
parks are worthy a visit. The City Recreation Pzers are a new and 
much appreciated departure. They are at the foot of E. 3d, E. 24th, 
E. 112th, Christopher W., W. s5oth, and W. 129th Sts. 


Central Park. 


Means of the Access to Central Park.—The Broadway and Seventh 
Av., the Sixth Av., the Eighth Av., street cars and the Subway go 
directly to the lower end of the park. The Eighth Av. line runs 
along the whole length of its western side, and the Fourth Av. line 
(on Madison Av.) is only one short block east of it. The Fifth Av. 
stages gotoits main entrance and along its eastern side as faras 
the Met. Mus. cf Art, at 81st St. The Sixth Av. El. Ry. reaches 
the foot of the park at 58th St. by many direct trains, or by a change 
from Harlem trains at 5oth St.; it also runs along the western side 
of the park on Columbus Av., with a station opposite the Museum of 
Nat. History and the 77th St. gate on that side. The Third Av. 
El. Ry. is four blocks east of the park; its 67th St. station is most con- 
venient for tre Menagerie and lower part of tne park, and its 84th 
St. station for the Art Museum and Obelisk; a car line crosses the 
park at 86th St. The Lexington Avenue line is three blocks east. 

lower Park.—Central Park is divided into two nearly equal 


CITY’S PARKS, DRIVES, AND MUSEUMS. 45 


halves, a northern and a southern, by the high ground around the 
Belvidere and the sunken road at 79th St., beyond which, northward, 
are the reservoirs and the upper park, to which, however, a stranger 
does not ordinarily extend his walk. The principal entrance to the 
park is at 59th St. and Fifth Av., where the Drive begins and where 
the park phaetons start. This is called the Scholars’ Gate, and it is 
appropriately adorned by a colossal bust of Alex. von Humboldt, at 
the unveiling of which, in 1874, Prof. Louis Agassiz made a memor- 
able address. At Eighth Av. and s9th St. is another spacious 
entrance, in tront of which there is a circular esplanade, styled the 
Columbus Plaza. Inthe center of this circle towers the lofty rostral 
column surmounted by astatue of Columbus— a monument presented 
to the city by its Italian residents in 1892, in commemoration of the 
Columbian anniversary. Nearer the park entrance the statue of 
‘‘Commerce,” presented to the city in 1805 by Mr. Stephen B. Guion, 
may be seen. Gates will also be found where Seventh and Sixth 
Avs. abut upon the park; the Sixth Av. gate has a statue to Thor- 
waldsen, presented by Scandinavian citizens. The Scholar’s Gate 
(Fifth Av. and s9th St.) is the best starting point for a ramble, and 
the reader is advised to make his way along the broad: thoroughfare 
leading inward from that entrance, which will quickly take him to 
the 

Menagerie.—The living animals displayed here will hold his atten- 
tion a longer or shorter time according as his interest in them is large 
or small. They are grouped in small houses around the old Arsenal, 
a picturesque building of unknown age containing a police station in 
the basement, offices for the administration of the Commissioner fot 
Manhattan, and a meteorological observatory of much consequence 
in the attic; it is close to the gate at 64th St. and Fifth Av. In front 
of it are houses and cages containing the monkeys, the parrots, and 
other tropical birds, and certain cats and other small animals that 
require warmth; acage of eagles; a large wire fronted aviary, and 
several pens containing buffalos, deer, etc. In the rear of the 
Arsenal are pens for the deers, bisons, oriental buffalos and other 
quadrupeds; the great tank for the sea-lions; and exposed cages 
with wolves, etc. In winter many of these cages and paddocks are 
unoccupied, the animals that inhabit them in warm weather having 
been put under shelter. The lion-house, containing the lions, tigers, 
leopard, etc., the two-horned rhinoceros, and the interesting trio of 
hippopotami (which are provided with a huge tank), is among these 
cages, and forms the central attraction to most visitors. In the rear 


46 HANDY GUIDE TOWNE YY ORFACLINS 


of that is the deer-house and adjoining paddocks, where elks, 
giraffes, oriental goats, etc., are lodged, and behind that the house 
for the elephants, and the pond and paddock where the storks and 
some other large birds live. ‘The bear pits are hollowed into the side 
of arocky ledge near by, and form an unfailing attraction to the 
children. In winter many animals belonging to circuses are boarded 
here, and form a part of the exhibit which, consequently, is much 
more extensive at that season han in summer. 

The Mall, Esplanade, etc.—In: moving about the menagerie, 
glimpses are caught of the winding, rocky-shored piece of water at 
the southern end of the park called The Pond, and a short walk to 
the bridge in the rear of the Menagerie should be taken, in order to 
look at it. This done, turn your face northward, pass beneath the 
arch that carries a drive over the main pathway and follow its wind- 
ings onward until it brings you out upon the Mall. This is a broad 
level space of rather high ground, a quarter of a mile long, planted 
with parallel rows of stately elms, between which broad and straight 
paths of asphalt, lined with seats, run straight to where the prospec- 
tive is beautifully closed by the carved balustrade of the Terrace, 
over which, in the remote distance, rises the tower and flag of the 
Belvedere. Southward, a charming glimpse is caught, through the 
trees, of the tall apartment-houses on 59th St. and of the roofs and 
steeples along Fifth Av. At your left stretches the undulating 
iawns of The Green, dotted here and there, perhaps, with pasturing 

heep, watched by a son of ‘‘Old Shep’—a dog, now dead. whose 
-ame has gone far and wide (See St. Nicholas, Vol. XI, Pt. II, p. 747.) 
Below the Green, nearer to the Highth Av. entrance, is the ball 
ground, devoted to boys’ amusements; but it is invisible from here 
and the noise of its shouting players does not despoil the silence. 
At the lower end of the Mall is a statue of Shakspere, by 
J. Q. A. Ward, erected there in 1872, on the 300th aniversary of the 
poet’s birth; and just above it, facing each other, are statues of 
Burns and Scott, both in sitting posture, and appropriately borne 
upon pedestals of Aberdeen granite. Both were modeled by Jokn. 
Steele of Edinburgh, and presented to New York by resident Scotch- 
men. Ward's ‘‘ Indian Hunter ’ stands somewhat behi-~4 the Burns 
statue, looking eagerly towards The Green; and a few rods up the 
Mall is the bronze statue of Fitz Greene Halleck, modeled by Wilson 
MacDonald. The Mall is the great promenade of the park, and on 
summer afternoons is aiways filled with loiterers, while goat-car- 


CI YS SY PAR IOS, dR Fos, WAL As TOE Ss 47 


riages, carrying happy youngsters, race up and down one of the side 
paths. Atthe upper end is the Kiosk, in which, on Sunday after- 
noons, a band plays in the presence .of great throngs of listeners of 
every class of society, and significantly overlooking this musical spot 
is the bust of Beethoven, unveiled with much ceremony in July, 1884. 
Here, at the right, are the beautiful Wistaria Bower and (behind it) 
the Casino (restaurant), where ice cream and light edibles may be pro- 
cured at moderate prices. 


THE TERRACE BELOW THE MALL 


The Ramble.— Here no ‘“‘ guide” is wanted, the very genius of 
the place, which has been left as wild as possible, and whose paths 
wind in and out most confusingly or come to a sudden halt against 
the rocks or lake shore, is to wander without method or care till you 
are rested from the formality and crowd of the town, ‘‘so near and 
yet so far.” A noble bust of Schiller; rustic cabins set upon lofty 
points of rock; narrow gorges hung with blossoming vines; splash- 
ing waterfalls; a gloomy cave; thickets, flowers, birds, woodland 
sights and sounds —these are the features of The Ramble. The pick- 
ing of flowers and the breaking of twigs are wisely forbidden. A 
sign directs the rambler to the Carrousel — a piace for children’s games 


48 HANDY GOIDE TONEW ( VORK CITY. 


with swings, merry-go-rounds, etc. Another sign directs him to the 
Dairy, near by, where milk, bread and butter, cheese, and the like, 
may be bought for a luncheon. ‘The Belvedere is not far away, along 
shady paths and over bare rocks, and it should not be forgotten. 
The view from its tower is worth far more than the small exertion of 
climbing to the outlook. The reservoirs seen at the foot of the tower 
and northward are those which first receive the Croton water, and 
whence it is distributed. From the Belvedere a path down an avenue 
of thorn-trees, which completely overarch it, leads eastward to the 
main thoroughfare, whence it is only a short distance to the Art Mu- 
seum and Obelisk at 82d St. and Fifth Av., a description of which 
will be found a few pages ahead 

Returning from the Belvedere to The Ramble, keep along the edge 
of the lake, cross another bridge, pausing a moment to look at the 
swans, and walk straight on to the gate at 77th St. A large unfinished 
stone and brick building faces you on the opposite side of Eighth 
Av., surrounded by wide and regular lawns. The green space is 
Manhattan Square, an annexation to Central Park, and the uncom 
pleted building is the nucleus of 

The American Museum of Natural History, large as it already is, 
is only a beginning. The entire building, as designed, will occupy 
the whole of Manhattan Sq., and embrace four great courts. 
The architecture will be imposing and the central structure will be 
surmounted by a lofty dome. An idea of the appearance may be 
gained from the completed south front on 77th St.— a beautiful struct- 
ure of light brown stone, approached by a grand stairway. Admit- 
tance is free except on Monday and Tuesday (25 cents), and the 
museum is open on Sunday afternoons and on Tuesday and Saturday 
evenings. Pamphlets descriptive of several collections are for sala 
at the door; but the system of labelling is so complete that these are 
hardly required by the casual visitor. 

The museum occupies a building of five stories in height along the 
whole front of the north side of 77th St., with a tee piece running 
northward. ‘The entrance is in the center, and visitors should choose 
the ground level in preference to the so-called main door at the top 
of the outside steps. By this means the whole collection is reached, 
floor by floor, without repeating. It contains articles and models 
illustrating the life of the Eskimos of North America, the Shoshone 
Indians, the Gros Ventres; basketry, and the archeology of New 
York ; a fine collection of Totem poles of the Haida Indians; masks 


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and dishes from British Columbia; carvings from Vancouver Island, 
and basketry and utensils of the Chilcoten and Yakima Indians; the 
Jesup collection of woods; the Hyde collection from the ancient 
pueblos, clitf-houses, and burial-caves of the Southwest; groups of 
animals, masterpieces of the taxidermist’s art, conspicuous amongst 
which are the cases of moose, bison, and musk-ox, undoubtedly 
the finest in the world. This is particularly true of the Bird-rock 
group and the Water Ouzel group. Here, also, are minerals, includ- 
ing the exhibit of the Tiffany’s, at the Paris Exhibition in 1889, pur- 
chased and presented by J. Pierpont Morgan; collection of meteorites 
and geological specimens, including the collection of the late Prof. J. 
Hall, priceless to paleontologists; specimens of vertebrate paleeon- 
‘ology ; cretaceous fish; ichthyosaurus with young, showing it to 
have been viviparous, and hundreds of other priceless examples of by- 
gone ages. The collection of reproductions and casts of the ancients’ 
monoliths and bas-reliefs of Central America, presented by the Duke 
of Loubat, is shown here, as well as rare and curious specimens 
illustrating the pre-Columbian life of that portion of the continent. 
One floor is given up to anthropology, conchology, paleontology, ento- 
mology, and mammalogy, and on this floor is the hbrary containing 
55,000 volumes on natural history subjects, accessible to members 
and students, and the laboratory for photography. In addition to 
its use as a museum it is a center of scientific life. Supplementing 
the lectures organized officially, the meetings and lectures of the New 
York Entomological Society and the Linnean Society of New York, 
are held within it. The lecture hall has a seating accommodation of 
1,500 and is a separate building at the extreme north of the museum, 
The lectures on Tuesdays and Saturdays are free. 


The Drive— A good plan will be to return now to Central Park 
and wait until one of the public carriages comes along, northward 
bound. ‘These carriages or ‘‘phaetons” are roomy and easy-going 
affairs, which make the complete circuit of the park at intervals of 
about half an hour. The fare is 25 cents for each passenger for the 
whole ride. This pleasant and profitable trip (which by the way is 
not beneath the dignity of anyone), begins at the Fifth Av. and 59th 
St. entrance. The course is to and past the end of the Mall, show- 
ing its green parterres, the noble breadth of The Green and all the 
statues there; then along the western side of the Mall and to a knoll 
at the 1. .cer end of the Lake, passing the fine bronzes ‘‘ Tigress and 
Young” by Aug. Caine, and ‘‘The Falconer,” by George Simonds; 
then around the western extremity of the Lake, past the heroically 
tall bronze statue of Daniel Webster, which was modeled by Thomas 
Ball, and stands opposite 72d St. The Lake remains prettily in view 
for some time on the right, with the woods of The Ramble, and the 
medizeval tower of the Belvedere as its background. On tho left, 


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52 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


outside the park, the Dakota, Majestic, and San Remo hotels, and 
the Natural History Museum are here conspicuous. The memorial 
statue of the Seventh Regiment also stands near 72d St., and not 
far from it is a bust of Mazzini, the Italian liberator, modeled by 
Turini, and the gift of Italian citizens. Leaving the lake shore, the 
drive loses itself among almost continuous lines of trees. The grim 
walls of the lower reservoir are near at hand on the right. Near 
the 81st St. gate an equestrian statue of General Simon Bolivar 
will attract notice. It was a gift from the government and people of 
the Venezuelan Republic. Through thickening and beautiful woods, 
opening here to a glimpse of sunny hill-slopes or rocky exposures, 
and there to the shining surface of the lake-like reservoir, the passen- 
ger rolls smoothly along the perfectly kept road. If it is in the 
morning not many carriages will be seen, but the bridle-path which 
follows the road pretty closely may be well filled; but if the hour is 
toward sunset the drive will be crowded with handsome equipages, 
and one may feel himself quite ‘‘in the swim.” ‘The upper end of 
the park is much wilder and more solitary than the lower end; and 
here, on a bit of a hilltop called Mt. St. Vincent, at the extreme end 
of the drive, is a large restaurant and lounging place, where excellent 
fare is given at moderate rates. 

The southward ride along the East Drive differs from the up- 
per part of the West Drive only in the fact that you overlook the 
palatial homes of many multi-millionaires. The Obelisk and Metro- 


politan Museum of Art are passed at 82d St., with passing glances of 
ac:miration for Conradt’sstatue of Alexander Hamilton, and Kemeys’s 


‘« Still Hunt,” which stands a little above them. ‘Then the beautiful 
woods and rocky knolls and lake glimpses along the eastern side of 
the lower park begin; the bronze statue of Prof.S. F. B. Morse, the 
inventor of the electric telegraph, attracts attention near the 72d St. 
entrance; Ward’s historical statue of ‘‘ The Pilgrim” (a gift from the 
New England Society) is justly admired as the Lake is approached; 
the Terrace and Mall fall under our eyes, and the ride ends at the 
familiar approach to the Scholars’ Gate — the starting point. 


The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 


The Metropolitan Museum of Art is on the eastern side of Central 
Park, opposite the entrance at 81st St. It is half a mile from an 
elevated railway, but is reached directly by the Fifth Av. stages. 
The Fourth (or Madison) Av. street-cars pass within one block, and 


CITY’S PARKS, DRIVES, AND MUSEUMS, 58 


the park carriages go tothe door, Admittance is free except on Mon- 
day and Friday, when 25 cents is charged; open Sunday, 1 to 5 p. m. 

The principal entrance is in the east front. ‘Turnstiles within the 
door admit and register visitors, and umbrellas and canes must be 
checked and left at the desk. A series of hand-books, costing 10 to 20 
cents each, may be bought, covering a number of the separate 


exhibits; the catalogue of paintings is especially full and valuable. 
Unlike the great European art museums, the Metropolitan is a 
private institution, receiving but a small sustenance from New York 


The Original Home, the First Section City. The Louvre, 
Built, of the Metropolitan Museum of the British Museum, 


Art, in Central Park the art galleries of 
Dresden, Naples, Vi- 
enna, and Madrid, 
are national institu- 

tions, and some of them centuries old. But this is a corporation of 
individuals, who devote some of the benefits of their wealth in this 
way to the people; and although the older part of the museum was 


erected some years ago, it stands unique in the world inits Cyprian 
antiquities; is second only to the British Museum in its Babylonian 
cylinders; leads all American collections in paintings and statues, 
and has acquired an incomparable series of mummy Cases. 

The original plan of the building provided for extensions, which 
have been made from time to time on the rear or northern side in 
order to accommodate the rapid accumulation of new objects by the 
munificence of art-lovers. Other and more extended enlargements 
have of recent years been made. The corporation in charge of the 
museum has for several years maintained an estimable art school 


in New York City. 


54 HANDY GUTDEXTONE WeEVORK CLL Y,. 


Among the treasures of this museum are examples of the most 
noced of the masters of the Italian, Dutch, Flemish, and Spanish 
schools — Michael Angelo, Leonardi de Vinci, Correggio, Murillo, 
Claude Lorraine, Titian, Velasques, Teniers, Holbein, Albert Durer, 
Rembrandt, Rubens, and many others, are allrepresented. The mod- 
ern French and English schools have specimens ranging from Gains- 
borough, Turner, and Reynolds to Rosa Bonheur, Leighton, Alma 
Tadema, and Constant. The American school includes Gilbert 
Stuart, Kennett, Cropsey, Gay, and Innes. ‘The metallic arts, porce- 
lains, laces, and musical instruments are amongst the most noted, 
but the most artistic and remarkable gathering is probably that of 
the goldsmith’s art, mainly due to the munificence of J. Pierpont 
Morgan, containing magnificent examples, going back to 300 B. C., 
in most perfect condition, amongst which are a corona Trzumphalzs, 
such as were awarded to athletes; a corona Nuptualzs, or bridal 


wreath, wrought in silver and gold, in leaves of the oak, myrtle, and 
hawthorn, both in leaf and flower-bud; and a gold crown of the 
Priestess of Demiter. Sculpture and architectural embellishment 
are represented mainly by casts, but they are good ones, and 
few museums can possibly have more than a few originals. Arms 
and armor, and specimens of the art of the worker in iron are a 
worthy and, in some respects, a remarkable collection, as also is the 
exhibit of early glass—Persian and Arabian, Greek, Roman, and 
early Phoenician. Carved wood, of European, Japanese, and Burmese 
workmanship with elaborate inlaying, is represented by some of the 
best extant examples. In fact, for variety, richness, and artistic ex- 
cellence, the Metropolitan Museum bids fair, especially in light of the 
Rogers five millions to which it has recently fallen heir, to rank 
amongst the best art galleries of the world. 


The Obelisk, ‘‘ Cleopatra’s Need/e.’’ 


The obelisks that stand as mementoes of ancient religions and king- 
doms in the valley of the Nile, have been objects of intense interest 
to the world ever since their erection; and it is a subject of gratifica- 
tion to all Americans that the most distinguished of those remaining 
in Egypt—the far-famed ‘‘ Cleopatra’s Needle,” should have been 
permitted to come to New York. This obelisk was quarried out of 
the hard, rose-red syenite of the quarries of Assouan (anciently 
Syene), in Nubia, and was then floated 700 miles down the Nile to 
the ancient city of On, known in classical writings as Heliopolis 
—City of the Sun—whose rtiins are near the modern village ot 
Matunyeh, five miles from Cairo 


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The top corner figures and other sculpture has yet to be supplied. 
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CITY'S PARKS, DRIVES, AND MUSEUMS. 57 


Other Parks and Drives. 


Riverside Park and Grant’s Tomb.—Riverside Park, or Drive, 
lies along the high verge of the Hudson, between 71st and 127th Sts., 
and is reached by the Broadway street-cars, by the Sixth Av. El. Ry. 
(half a mile walk), or, at iis upper end, by the cable-cars along 125th 
St. to Fort Lee Ferry. It was the subject of an appreciative illus- 
trated article by William A. Stiles, in Zhe Century, October, 1885, 
and of an illustrated article in A/umsey, October, 1808. 


THE MALL, CENTRAL PARK, 
Where the band plays on Saturdays and Sundays tn summer. 


All along Riverside Avenue, which bounds the park inland and 
extends northward to the Convent in Manhattanville, elegant houses, 
surrounded by extensive lawns and flower gardens are rising; and it 
is fair to suppose that this admirable region will become, and perma- 
nently remain, one of the finest and most fashionable residence por. 
tions of the metropolis. ‘*The road itself —a cluster of ample ways 
for pleasure riding, driving, and walking, separated by strips of turf 
from which stately trees are to rise, and extending for three miles — 
would have a dignity of its own wherever it might lead through the 


58 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


city. But its position overlooking the broad Hudson gives it an 
added importance and an individual character which are not repeated 
nor paralleled in any of the famous avenues of the world.” 


The roadway and pedestrian promenade is bounded by the low 
coping of the massive retaining wall, which withholds the drive from 
sliding down the steep river-bank. ‘‘ Below this retaining wall the 
woods have been left in their native wildness, with only asphalt 
walks threading aisles made by the trees themselves. It is in this 
wilderness that Riverside lovers find a paradise. . . . Aslongas 
the daylight lasts the walks and grass-grown hills are the play- 
grounds of myriads of children. . . . Bordering the eastern line 
of the drive-way is a row of fine modern houses quite unlike any 
other metropolitan dwellings. It seems almost as though their 
owners had endeavored to combine with the necessities of city life 
some of the joys of a rural residence.” These elegant homes begin 
on the rise south of 79th St. with the palace of Charles M. Schwab. 
After passing the big private school for girls between 85th and 86th 
Sts., one comes to a handsome row of light-colored residences. The 
late Gen. E. L. Viele lived on the corner of 88th St.; near goth St. 
a very striking house, with a red tiled roof and many balconies, was 
that of John H. Matthews, ‘‘who made a solid fortune out of effer- 
verscent soda;”’ and the goth St. corner is occupied by the picturesque 
ivy-grown home of Mrs. Mary S. Parsons, in front of whicha flight of 
stonesteps descends to the river; this house was built by Cyrus Clark, 
‘Father of the West Side” on the site of the pillared country-seat 
cf Brockholst Livingston. The Delanceys, Apthorpes, and McVic- 
kars once had adjoining estates, and a volume of interesting local 
reminiscences might be compiled here. 

Outside the drive stands a bronze copy of Houdin’s statue of 
Washington, given to the city by the school-children. Beyond this 
comes the bridged roadway at g6th St.; and the high ground on the 
further side is crowned by the old-fashioned white mansion of the 
Furness estate, marked by a pillared portico and spacious wings. 
The large red brick and brown stone house and grounds of Peter 
Doelger cover half the block at tooth St. Another big house set 
back from and above the street, and surrounded by a garden at 1o2d 
St., noticeable for the fact that it is built of iron, is the home of 
Mrs. Bertha Foster, widow of the man whose patent glove-hooks 
brought him a fortune. Maggie Mitchell, the actress, dwells in her 
own house a block east, at the corner of West End Avenue; and 
Richard Mansfield lived at No. 312, just beyond ro4th St. At 1o8th 
St. the huge square-towered house of S. G. Bayne, and the ivy- 
grown one of his neighbor, H. S. F. Davis, are conspicuous. This, 
however, is the highest, most sightly part of the drive. 


A similar drive is La Fayette Boulevard, along the view front of 
Washington Heights, reached from Riverside Drive by new Viaduct 
and Broadway. 


GT VS PALS DAIVES, AND MUSEUMS. 59 


Park carriages ply between 72d St. and Grant’s Tomb; fare, 25 cents. 

The Claremont restaurant is one of the historic landmarks of the 
vity and a meal in its breezy verandas is one of the indispensable 
things ‘‘to do.” It is on a bluff just above Grant’s tomb, commanding 
an unsurpassed view of the Hudson and the Palisades, and its history 
is an epitome of America’s public life. Over the adjacent hills, with 
Washington in command, was fought the ever memorable battle of 
Harlem. It was modeled after Lord Clive’s historic Claremont in Sur- 
rey, England, now owned by King Edward VII. From Claremont the 
British minister viewed the trials of the first steamboat /,*ulton’s 
Clermont, in 1807. It was the residence of Joseph Bonaparte, whom 
Napoleon made King of Spain, and, since its acquisition by the city, its 
Lessee (R. A. Gushee) has entertained untold hosts of guests from 
President McKinley to the Governors and Officials of the State and 
City. Claremont is in fact the gathering place of the beauty and 
the chivalry of the metropolis. 

The northern part cf the park has kept the ol? name C/aremont 
Fletghts, and here, overlooking a commanding prospect, and sur- 
rounded by quiet lawns, which keep at a reverential distance the 
‘“equipage and bravery of fashion,” has been placed the Tomb of 
Gen. U. S. Grant, the first soldier of the restored Union. 

General Grant died on July 23, 1885. His own preference, as well 
as that of his family, led to his interment in New York; and the site 
of the present monument was chosen, and set apart by the city, 
because of its natural beauty, not only, but because a memorial build- 
ing would be visible from many distant points in the city, harbor, and 
river. A temporary vault-like tomb was immediately constructed, 
and the body was placed therein, August 8, 1885, after ‘‘ the most 
solemn and imposing” funeral demonstration ever made in New 
York, viewed by more than a million people. Here the body of the 
great captain remained until removed to its present final resting- 
place, in 1897. The following description of this magnificent mau- 
soleum is quoted by permission from Gen. Horace Porter’s account in 
The Century Magazine, for April, 1897: 

*‘ The lower portion of the tomb is a square structure of the Grecian- 
Doric order, measuring 90 feet on a side. ‘The entrance is on the 
south side, and is protected by a portico formed of double lines of 
columns, and approached by steps 70 feet wide. The square portion 
is finished with a cornice and a parapet, at a height from grade of 72 
feet, and above this isacircular cupola 70 feet in diameter, of the 
Ionic, which is surmounted with a pyramidal top terminating at a 
height of 150 feet above grade, or 280 feet above mean high water of 
the Hudson River. The interior is cruciform in plan, 76 feet at the 
greatest dimension; the four corners being piers of masonry connected 
at the top by coffered arches, the tops of which are 50 feet from: the 
floor level. On these arches rest an open circular gallery of 4o feet 


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inner diameter, culminating in a paneled dome 105 feet above the 
level of the floor. The surfaces between the planes of the faces of 
the arches and the circular dome form pendentives which are decor- 
ated in high-relief sculpture, the work of J. Massey Rhind, and emble- 
matic of the birth, military and civic life, and death of General Grant. 

. « The approach to the crypt is by stairways which give 
access to a passage encircling the space dedicated to the sarcophagi, 
which space is surrounded by square columns supporting paneled 
marble ceilings and entablature.” 

In the construction of this memorial the greatest care was taken to 
obtain the highest solidity and durability. The stone is granite from 
North Jay, Me.; only large, flawless blocks were used, and every- 
where the best possible material and workmanship was exacted. 
Five years passed between the laying of the cornerstone by President 
Harrison and the dedication; and the total cost will be about $600,000, 
contributed by about 90,000 givers, none in a larger sum than $5,000, 
and almost entirely citizens of New York. The matter has been in 
the hands of a Monument Association, the most influential member 
of which was Gen. Horace Porter. Their sole reward was the uni- 
versal public interest and magnificent pageantry that united to make 
the dedication of this memorial, April 27, 1897, one of the most nota- 
ble public occasions in the history of the metropolis and the country. 
The plans contemplate a noble approach from the river’s edge, where 
a steamboat-landing will be built. 


The body of General Grant rests in a sarcophagus hollowed from a 
single, flawless block of red porphyry, quarried at Monteiro, Wis., 
which is closed by a massive lid of the same lustrous material. A 
duplicate beside it contains the body of Mrs. Grant. 

Morningside Park extends from Central Park at 110th St. to 123d 
St. It occupies high, rocky ground, and the battlemented wall and 
heavy staircases along its eastern side, overlooking the Harlem flats, 
are conspicuous from the trains of the Sixth Av. El. Ry. At its 
northern end are the remains of Fort Laight, one of the line of 
block-houses, built to defend the northern approaches to the city in 
the war of 1812-14. 

Morningside Heights is the name given to the elevated plateau 
immediately west of Morningside Park, which is gradually becoming 
covered with imposing buildings, and will be, after a few years, the 
most beautiful part of the city. At the southern end will stand the 
magnificent Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John, the Divine; 
a part of the apse has been erected. Just above it has already 
been finished the first section of the St. Luke’s Hospital. 


Photo. Copyright by. Tying Underhiil. . 
MORNINGSIDE PARK AND CATHEDRAL HEIGHTS—110th Street. 


Parks and Drives North of the Harlem. 


Harlem has its own little park in pretty W?¢. Morrzs Square, which 
occupies about twenty acres and interrupts Fifth Av., between 120th 
and 124th sts., by its rocky hill, which is over too feet high, and crowned 
by an observatory. An examination of this relic of the original 
roughness of the land here gives one an idea of the labor expended 
in reducing to the present level the streets and building sites of this 
now flat and monotonous district. Another reservation is that for 
Colonial Park, between Bradhurst and Edgewood avs., extending 
from W. 145th to W. 155th St. 

Six new parks, in and near the annexed district north of the Har- 
lem River, recently projected, are as follows: 

Van Cortlandt Park.— A new and large park containing 1,069 
acres, which is yet almost in its original condition of rocky woodland, 
lake and stream, and contains a large parade ground for the National 
Guard. Van Cortlandt station, on the N. Y. & Putnam R. R., stands 
upon its margin and near the lake and public golf links. 

Bronx Park lies along both sides of the Bronx River above West 
Farms. It is reached by elevated railroad, Bronx Park Station, or 
by the Subway to 180th St. Station; and is connected with Van 
Cortlandt Park by the Mosholu Parkway, and with Pelham Park, 
along the coast of Long Island Sound, four miles eastward, by 
another Parkway. 

«Bronx Park was long ago the property of the Lorillards, whose 

mansion still stands near the waterfall that ran the old snuff mill 

wherein che family fortune was begun. The manor house is now 

apolice station. Zhe Botanical Gardens, which are resulting 
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from the efforts of a society in codperation with the city government, 
are in this part of the park, which has been prepared for them; 
some three hundred acres have been set apart for this purpose. 
The Zodlogical Garden, under the care of the New York Zoological 
Society, in codperation with the State and City, adjoins the 
Botanical Garden and has a grant of 2€6 acres. A grand display of 
animals, domiciled as nearly as possible in their native circum- 
stances, is made, and special attention given to American animals. 
Admission free, except Monday and Thursday, when a fee of 
25 cents is charged on these days. 


Crotona Park is a space of 135 acres between Morrisania and 
Tremont, also connected with Bronx Park by a drive. It is easily 
reached by the Suburban El. Ry. to 17oth St. C/aremont Park lies 
upon the wooded ridge three-quarters of a mile east of High Bridge,. 
and just west of Central Morrisania (Harlem R. R.) station; and S¢. 
Mary's Park is in the heart of Morrisania. There is also a little 
park surrounding the reservoir at the southern end of High Bridge. 

Pelham Bay Park is the largest park in the city, consisting of 1,756 
acres of unimproved country, with seven miles of water-front on 
Long Island Sound, It has great potentialities of development. It 
is reached at the Bartow station of the Harlem branch of the N. Y., 
N. H.& H.R. R. A public golf links has been made by the city, 
and when this park is joined to the Bronx by a parkway, as it is in- 
tended to be, it will be the richest of the string of parks that girdle 
the great city from the’Sound to the Hudson. 

The Speedway.— This is a public ‘‘speeding course” along the 
west bank of the upper Harlem River, provided by the city as a 
place where owners of fast horses may test their paces. Its 
length is about three miles, and its total width is from 125 to 150 feet, 
diminished to 95 feet, width of roadway, by the sidewalks, whose 
presence was bitterly opposed by the horsemen, whose selfishness has 
been conspicuous in the whole history of this peculiar feature of the 
city’s public grounds. The construction of the road is as follows: Over- 
lying a Telford bed are four inches of broken trap rock, graded to 
give the crown of the road a dip of two inches to the side channeling. 
On this are four inches of cinders, rolled and packed to the same 
grade. ‘The top dressing is a mixture of sand, loam, and clay, the 
latter in the proportion of about two to one. ‘The grade is as nearly 
level as it was possible to get it. From High Bridge to a little 
beyond Washington Bridge there are a few slight inclines and 
declines, but beyond Washington Bridge there is a practically straight 
and level stretch of two miles. The speedway can be reached from 
the 155th St. viaduct, and also from High Bridge, and when it is 
thronged with fine horses, in gallant rigs, it is one of the sights of 
the metropolis to any one interested in the subject of America’s 
special equine product, the trotter and pacer. Both are to be seen 
here in their highest degrees of development. 


CITY’S PARKS, DRIVES, AND MUSEUMS. 63 


Drives. — Though it is pleasant to wander almost anywhere along 
the winding roads north of the Harlem, east of the flats of Morrisania, 
some special ‘‘drives”” have been prepared and are followed by 
those who have the carriages to use upon them. The Southern Boul- 
evard starts from the north end of the Third Av. bridge and turn- 
ing east follows the line of the Westchester shore of Long Island 
Sound, then curving around returns to the westward and joins Central 
Av. at Jerome Park. It is wide, well kept, and commands at its 
southern end some fine views of the Sound. It has electric cars. 

Central Avenue begins at the north end of the Centray Bridge, 
formerly called McComb’s Dam Bridge. It is reached by Seventh 
Ay. at 155th St. Itis a wide boulevard and the road-bed us kept in 
excellent condition. ‘This is the fashionable drive of the city outside 
of Central Park, and every afternoon, and especially on Sunday, it is 
thronged with splendid horses. 

St. Nicholas Avenue.— This fine road was formerly Harlem Lane, 
and runs northwest from Central Park, alongside of the grounds of 
the Convent of the Sacred Heart, and thence to Ft. Washington, 
where it joins the Kingsbridge Road, which you may follow thence 
to Kingsbridge across the Harlem, after which it runs into Broad- 
way and extends to Yonkers, All these are good motoring roads. 


THE JUMEL MANSION—Washington Heights. 
Once Washington's Headquarters. 


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WASHINGTON SQUARE TO THE BATTERY. 


The Washington Arch.— The visitor passes from Fifth Avy. into 
Washington Sq. under the noble curve of the Centennial Arch, tom- 
pleted in 1893, which has been exquisitely modeled in marble at a 
cost of more than $250,000, after the temporary structure built there 
for the centennial celebration of the inauguration of the first president 
of the United States, which took place in this city on May 1, 1889, 
with such memorable pomp and circumstance. It was paid for by 
popular subscriptions, mainly in small amounts, and almost wholly by 
residents of the city; and its sentimental and artistic value places it 
among the foremost objects of interest in the metropolis. 

The park at Washington Square is nine acres in extent, and occu- 
pies the site of the old Potter’s Field, wherein more than 100,000 
bodies are buried. Later it was a military training ground, and a 
camp for volunteer troops during the late war. Its improvement is 
therefore more modern than the appearance of the grand elms would 
indicate. The north side of Washington Sq. is peculiarly impressive 
and interesting, from the style of the residences, many of which 
are still inhabited by affluent old families, too conservative and too 
much in love with past associations and with the beauty of the loca- 
tion to yield to the behest of fashion and move up-town. Many well- 
known literary men and artists dwell in this neighborhood. 

The old gray Tudor halls of the University of the City of New York, 
waich contained so many interesting memories, will be missed from 
the western side of the square, where they have been replaced by a 
lofty modern structure, in the top of which the University has resumed 


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its sessions while the lower floors are devoted to business. The region 
south of the square has fallen into the deepest social degradation, and 
is inhabited by a mixture of Italians, French, Negroes, and nonde- 
scripts, among whom the police know many habitual criminals. ‘The 
Italian poor predominate among the crowds that throng here on 
pleasant evenings; and to this people the city owes the bronze statue 
of Garibaldi, which faces the fountain, and is the work of Giovann. 
Turini. It was in view of this degradation that the south side of the 
square was chosen as the site of the mission church and home erected 
there in 1892, as a memorial to the Rev. Adoniram Judson, who was 
the first foreign missionary sent out from the United States. Its 
great yellow campanile dominates the square, and its parochial work 
penetrates to the most squalid corners of the dark neighborhood. 

From Washington Square we walk down South Fifth Av., through 
the French quarter, to the station of the Sixth Av. El. Ry. at Bleecker 
St., and take our seats in a train bound down-town. 

We alight at Battery Pl. and can spare a few minutes for a stroll 
about Battery Park and a glance at Castle Garden, facts in regard to 
which may be read in the next chapter. This done, we will turn our 
steps up Broadway toward the commercial quarter and Wall St. 


Bowling Green to Wall Street. 


Bowling Green is a small oval of shrubbery in the triangular space 
at the foot of Broadway. It is the oldest park in the city, and wasa 
market place in the early Colonial days of the Dutch town, whose nar. 
row and intricate strcets were laid out between it and East River. 
The English made a little park of it, and some of the best houses of 
pre-Revolutionary days overlooked its lawn. Here was erected that 
leaden statue of George III, which the spirited young Americans 
pulled down in 1776, and out of which, tradition says, they molded 
42,000 bullets to fire at the red-coated subjects of the melted monarch 
— which was adding injury to insult. 

The lower end of the park is now ornamented by a dronze statue, 
excellent in design, of Abraham de Peyster, who, about 17-90, was 
the principal merchant and most influential publicist in New York; 
he sits in a chair inscribed with symbolic bas-reliefs. The statue is 
the gift of his descendant, J. Watts de Peyster, and the artist was 
G, E. Bissell, whose statue of Watts adorns Trinity churchyard. 


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‘“On the site now occupied by Mr. Cyrus W. Field’s Washington 
building [the high brick structure west of The Green and _ fac- 
ing the Battery], No. 1 Broadway, Archibald Kennedy, the collector 
of the port, built in 1760, a large house, which successively became 
the headquarters of Lords Cornwallis and Howe, General Sir Henry 
Clinton, and General Washington, while Talleyrand made it his 
home during his stay in America. Benedict Arnold concocted his 
treasonable projects at No. 5 Broadway, and at No. 11, on the site of 
the Burgomaster Kruger’s Dutch tavern, was General Gage’s head- 
quarters, in the old King’s Armsinn. . . . South of the square, 
and on the site now occupied by the new United States Custom 
House, the first governor of the New Netherlands, Peter Minuit, who 
had bought the Island of Manhattan from the Indians for $24, built 
Fort Amsterdam, a block-house surrounded by a cedar palisade.”’ 


Straight across from The Green, at the head of Whitehall St., the 
long, stately fagade of the Produce Exchange forms the most con- 
spicuous feature in the scene. This building is 300 by 150 feet in 
ground dimensions, 116 feet high to the cornice of the roof, and 22: 
to the top of the tower. It stands upon a foundation of 15,000 spruct 
piles, and is fire-proof throughout. The cost, including the ground, 
was nearly $3,200,000, and when the bonded debt is liquidated it will 
yield an income of $200,000 a year. The external materialis brick 
and terra-cotta, and the style is modern renaissance of a beautiful 
order, surmounted by a massive campanile, and designed and exe- 
cuted by George B. Post, as architect. 


The Produce Exchange arose by degrees out of the habit of the 
merchants, from the earliest time, of meeting in the central market- 
place to traffic together and compare prices. In 1690 an exchange 
building was first erected, partly for their use, at the foot of Broad 
St., succeeded in 1727 by an exclusive corn-exchange or market at 
the foot of Wall St. This was followed by other buildings more and 
more specially adaptec to their needs, until finally the merchants 
united in erecting the Merchants’ Exchange, used until 1907 as the 
U. S. Custom House. After a time discontented members of the 
Merchants’ Exchange and outsiders, who were then doing business 
in flour and grain in the open air at the lower end of Broad St., 
organized and incorporated a new association which set up for itself 
at the corner of Whitehall and Pearl Sts., where Washington Irving 
had lived in his younger days. To this new center all the old mem- 
bers were finally obliged to come, and in 1868 the ‘‘New York Pro- 
duce Exchange’’ was organized, and on May 6, 1884, the members 
took possession of this new ‘‘temple of commerce.’’ The old Corn 
Exchange has been torn down, and in its place has arisen the Army 
Building. The membership has long since reached the limit, 3,000, 
and when a vacancy occurs, by death or otherwise, from $3,000 to 
$5,000 is paid at an auction among approved bidders for the vacated 
certificate. 


68 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


Several large entrances admit to the corridors, where are retail 
stores, the offices of the Produce Exchange Bank, and several 


other corporations. Nine elevators are constantly running, and vis- 
itors may easily go to the foot of the tower, where they are permitted 
to ascend the stairways to its summit. 

If the visitor does not care for the Tower he stops at the Gallery 
floor, and passes into the balcony overlooking the ‘‘ floor” of the 
Exchange. 


THE PRODUCE EXCHANGE — Whitehall, Beaver, and Stone Streets. 


Several other analogous business associations may ve noted. 
Among them are: The Wercantile Exchange — butter, eggs, etc.— 


6 Harrison St.; the Coffee Exchange, at Pearl and Beaver Sts.; the 
Cotton Exchange (see below); the Maritime Exchange, 78 Broad 
St.; the Metal Exchange, on Burling Slip; the Coal and Iron Ex- 
change, 131 East 58th St.; the Real Estate Exchange, 115 Broad- 
way (see Harper's Magazine, November, 1888); Building Material 
Exchange, 20 Vesey St.; and the Horse Exchange, whose great 
stables are at 50th St. and Broadway, and which acts in conjunction 
with Tattersalls, in London. 

Representatives of all these unite to form the Chamber of Com: 


PARK ROW BUILDINGS—13 to 21 Park Row 
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merce, which was incorporated in 1770, and is the oldest commercial 
corporation in the United States. 

Leaving the Produce Exchange we walk eastward through Beaver 
St., originally a canal, leading into the greater inlet which penetrated 
what is now Broad St. Opposite the Exchange is a handsome gran- 
ite pile, which is the rear of the Welles building, whose still grander 
front of rose granite is at No. 18 Broadway. A cluster of Atlantic 
cable offices will attract attention. ‘The narrow cross street is New, 
which leads northward to Wall. Its tall buildings are filled with 
commercial offices, and the sidewalks are crowded with ‘‘ curbstone ”’ 
brokers. The next street crossed is Broad, with the beautiful Morris 
building on the corner. Beaver St. suffers a ‘‘jog,” and on the 
other side of Broad there comes suddenly into view ahead the great 
round front of yellow brick, and the conical red roof-tower of the 
Cotton Exchange, where all the dealings in cotton in the United 
States concentrate. Here William St. crosses and South William 
diverges; and on the wedge of land between the latter and Beaver 
is Delmonico’s restaurant, occupying a fine new building that replaces 
the old one where the original of this famous restaurant was known 
for so many years. The opposite corner is covered by the splendid 
building of the Corn Exchange Bank; and the fourth corner by a 
third magnificent structure in gray stone, built and occupied by the 
Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company. Beyond the Corn Exchange are 
seen the great fost building, while northward Lords Court and 
other structures scarcely less imposing carry the lofty line of 
walls to Exchange Pl. and the rear of the old Custom House. All 
of this notable group of new buildings are very lofty, very costly, 
and very comely in architecture, while their structure and interior 
arrangements and finish are of the most modern and highly finished 
character. A few steps farther on we run out of Beaver St. into 
Pearl St. at the point where it crosses 


Wall Street.—‘‘In the neighborhood of old Ft. George, were 
clustered a number of the aristocratic families who, before the Revo- 
lution, had been accustomed to give the fas in fashion, such as thy 
Delanceys, Livingstons, Morrisses, Bayards, De Peysters, Crugers, 
but for some years Wall St., where abode the Winthrops, Whites, 
Ludlows, Verplancks, and Marstons, had been running an even race 
with Pearl, getting ahead in the end, and holding precedence till 
Park Pl. claimed the laurels. Cortlandt St. gained luster from the 
residence there of Sir John Temple, Colonel and Lady Kitty Duer, 
Major Fairlin, and Colonel and Mrs. Crawford, once Mrs. Robert 


WALL STREET AND TRINITY CHURCH. 


72 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


Livingston. In Wall St. was to be found the very desirable board- 
ing house of Mrs. Daubenay, or Dabney, the great resort of Southern 
members of Congress. Broadway had been a pleasant bowery street 
ste the great fire of 1776 swept through it, leaving desolation in its 
wake. 

In the early Dutch days Pearl St. was the natural shore line (it owes 
its sinuosity to that fact—not to its having been a ‘‘ cow-path”’ as 
the story goes) and an estuary penetrated the length of Broad St. 

In 1652 the defenseless condition of the Dutch town led Governor 
Stuyvesant to prepare a fortified line of defense against a probable 
attack by Indians, not only, but from New England, where the 
English colonists were threatening the Dutch. A line of palisades 
was planted from river to river (Pearl to Greenwich Sts.), just above 
the head of the Heere Graft (Broad St. inlet), banked up with earth 
and having a broad space within cleared for the convenience of the 
defenders. This ‘‘wali” rapidly decayed, but was repaired from 
- time to time, and after the capture of the city by the English in 1663 
was substantially rebuilt and defended by stone bastions at the gates 
at Broadway and the East River, and by an ‘‘ artillery mount” at 
William St. Meanwhile houses were built along the cleared space 
within the palisade. It finally was recognized as a street, naturally 
named Wad/. Not until the beginning of the eighteenth century were 
any streets north of Wall laid out. All that tract was ‘‘ Damen’s 
farms,” as far north as ‘‘the Maiden’s Path” (Maiden Lane), which 
‘“was a very ancient road, . . . . its course through a valley 
the easiest route of passage from the two great highways along the 
North and East River sides.” 

From the very first Wall St. became a choice thoroughfare in the 
growing town, where the best people lived, and it retained this char- 
acter, with little business intermingled (except toward the foot of it, 
where the slave-market stood) until after the Revolution. ‘‘ The 
financial institutions of the city became concentrated here gradually, 
having been first drawn to the locality and then kept there for some 
time by the fact that nearly all the government buildings stood on the 
street. The City Hall was here before its removal to its present site; 
so were the courts, and the first Congress of the United States after 
the adoption of the Constitution assembled in a building which cov- 
ered the site of the present Sub-Treasury.” Now the name stands 
not only for the assemblage of great financial institutions which line 
its quarter-mile, but for the whole body of dealings in money and 
securities that go on in New York under the lead of the Stock 


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Exchange; yet the offices of the manipulators of the largest and most 
influential of the financial operations credited to ‘‘ Wall Street ” are 
often several blocks away from that short avenue, whose paving 
stones might be replaced by gold bricks without exhausting the 
vaults of wealth and the world-wide resources the street represents. 

Let us note a few of the sign-boards. ‘The even numbers are on 
the right-hand (northern) side of the street as we saunter up toward 
Broadway. At the next corner below used to stand the Old Tontine 
Coffee House, and the Tontine commercial building is now a monu- 
ment upon its site. At No. 80, just below Pearl St., is the Southern 
National Bank, and at No. 76 the Seamans’ Bank for Savings The 
Sampson building is at No. 65, and at 62 the New York branch of the 
Nevada Bank of San Francisco; but insurance offices almost exclu- 
sively occupy the numbers from 72 to 56, together with many offices 
opposite them. In the Brown Brothers’ building at 59-61 are located, 
besides the offices. of that distinguished firm of bankers, the New 
York branches of the Bank of Montreal, the Merchant’s Bank of 
Canada, and the Stock Agency of the Canadian Pacific Ry. ‘This 
brings us to Hanover St., and to the National City Bank, which 
occupies the whole block on the south side of Wall between Hanover 
and William Sts. 


The New Custom House, Cass Gilbert, architect, is of modern 
French Renaissance, and cost, including the site and furnishings, 
$7,000,000. Its seven floors afford an area of 300,000 square feet. 
The dome is the largest of solid masonry in the world. The coi- 
lector occupies the handsomest public offices in America. The 
building, standing at the foot of Broadway, rests on historic ground. 
Here stood Fort Amsterdam, built by the Dutch in 1626 and re- 
placed in 1790 by the Government House, erected for the accommo- 
dation of Washington’s Administration. The groups that flank the 
main entrance to the Custom House are by the American sculptor 
French. Bowling Green, the small park opposite, enclosed up to the 
time of the Revolutionary War, a Statue of King George III. 


Opposite the National City Bank, at No. 54, is the lofty brick 
front of the Central Trust Company; at No. 52 are the City Bank, 
the Bank of British North America, financial agencies of several 
Northwestern railroad companies, the law offices of several eminent 
corporation attorneys, and many other important factors in com- 
mercial life. You are now in the very heart of the financial district 
of the United States. The Bank of America’s big building across the 
street (No. 46) was completed in 1889, at a cost of $1,500,000. Then 
follows a cluster of very striking buildings lately erected, grand in 
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16 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


of which the new Merchants and Manhattan Bank building is perhaps 
the most costly and imposing. 

The nine-story building of the United States Trust Co., at 43-45, 
cost about $700,000. No. 35 is the Wall St. wing of the great Mills 
building, erected some years ago by Senator D. O. Mills, one of the 
‘silver kings ” of California, at an expense of over $4,000,000. It has 
frontages of 175 feet on Broad St., 150 feet on Exchange Pl., and 25 feet 
on Wall St., is ten stories in height, and has 330 rooms. ‘The beauti- 
ful brown stone building opposite it (No. 36) is occupied by New 
England railways, etc. No. 23 is the old marble house of Drexel, 
Morgan & Co., and contains the extensive offices of J. P. (Pierpont) 
Morgan & Co. of world fame. This brings us to the corner of Broad 
St., and into view just below on the left of the lofty double front of the 
Mills building, with its beautiful wrought-iron entrance, while on the 
right, the front of the Stock Exchange becomes conspicuous. 

Opposite the head of Broad St., on the right-hand side of Wall St., 
stand the Assay Office and the Sub-Treasury of the United States. 


The Assay Office, No. 30, is the oldest building in the street. It is 
of marble, and represents a handsome style, much in favor for public 
buildings a century ago. It is open to visitors from 2 to 4 p. m., and 
is well worth examination. ‘‘ Every operation is here carried on that 
is done in the Mint, except the actual stamping of the money. Inthe 
front are the offices of the assayer, and the room where crude bullion 
is received and paid for; and in the six-story building at the rear it is 
assayed, refined, separated, and cast into bars. Gold and silver are 
here to be seen in great profusion, the former generally in bars weigh- 
ing from 250 to 300 ounces, and worth from $5,000 to $6,000, and the 
latter in bars weighing about 200 ounces, and worth$110. The gold 
which is used in the arts is generally in thick square plates, worth 
from $100 to $800. The most noticeable curiosities are the hydraulic 
press, by which a great quantity of silver is compressed into a round 
body not unlike a milk-pan; the crystallizing vats, where the metal is 
subjected to the action of powerful acids, and the melting-room, where 
at intervals the gold and silver are poured off. From twenty to one 
hundred millions of crude bullion are here received and assayed in 
the course of a year.” 


The Sub-Treasury is the large Doric building of granite extend- 
ing from the Assay Office to Nassau St., and reaching through to Pine 
St. in the rear. It stands upon the site of the old Dutch City Hall 
and of the subsequent Federal buildings, where Washington was in- 
augurated first President of the United States, in 1789. The broad 
flight of steps is now broken by a pedestal bearing J. QO. A. Ward’s 
colossal bronze statue of Washington Taking the Oath, which was paid 
for by popular subscription, and unveiled in 1883. This building was 


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first erected for the Custom House, but was long ago outgrown and 
remodeled for its present purpose. Within there is a rotunda 60 ft. 
in diameter, the dome being supported by 16 Corinthian columns. 
Around this rotunda are ranged the desks of the various divisions of 
the Sub-Treasury. There are two large vaults for the storage of gold 
coin and notes on this floor, and the large vaults for the storage of 
silver are in the basement. Near the Pine St. entrance are the two 
rooms devoted to the handling of gold and silver coin. More money is 
stored in this building than anywhere else in the country, except in 
the Treasury vaults at Washington, and the majority of the money 
paid out by the General Government is by drafts upon this Sub- 
Treasury. 

The street at the side of the Sub-Treasury is Nassau, which runs 
straight north to 
City Hall Sq. In 
this lower part it is 
occupied wholly by 
banking and com- 
mercial concerns, 
as also is Pine St. 
in the rear of the 
Sub-Treasury, 
where many insur- 
ance companies 
ana other large in- 
stitutions are 
located. Farther 
on, Nassau St. is 
devoted largely to 
picture stores, THE SUB-TREASURY. 
shops for the sale 
of stationery and office supplies, and a great number of second-hand 
book-stores. At its upper end the lofty buildings are occupied 
principally by lawyers, and it finally merges into ‘‘Newspaper 
Square.” It has lately acquired some very fine tall buildings, the 
most conspicuous and beautiful of which is that of the Mutual Life 
Insurance Company, filling the east side of the block between Liberty 
and Cedar Sts. The Sheldon building, on the corner of John St., 
and the bank of Commerce at Cedar St., are noteworthy. 

Returning to Wall St., the latest new edifice is the narrow, twenty- 

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78 HANDY |GOIDEV TOWNE WAV ORRECILY: 


story Gillender building, partly occupied by the Manhattan Trust 
Company, at the corner of Wall and Nassau Sts., opposite the hand- 
some Wilkes building. It was opened in May, 1897. Nos. 14-16 
are covered by a wing of the Schermerhorn building, owned by the 
Astor family. It is full of business men. 


The New York Stock Exchange, the oldest and most legitimate 
organization of brokers, own an estate at 10 Broad St., extending 
through to New St. In the interim their business is carried on at the 
Produce Exchange. No one but a member is allowed upon the floor. 
and when it is remembered that $80,000 is paid for that privilege, the 
restriction is not to ?»e wondered at. The hours are from 10 A. M. to3 
Pp. M., and members are forbidden to make any transactions except 
during those hours, The dealings are wholly in stocks, bonds, and 
other securities which have been recognized or ‘‘listed”’ by the 
Exchange. The most prominent of these are represented by name 
upon iron standards scattered about the floor, around which the selling 
and buying of those particular securities go on. 

A younger organization with similar purposes is 

The Consolidated Petroleum and Stock Exchange, which occupies 
a noble building with large accommodations for business, at the 
corner of Broad and Beaver Sts. It arose from a consolidation of 
various boards dealing in oil, mining and general securities, and 
began operations in 1875. It now does nearly as much business as 
the older board, and the scene from its gallery (the entrance to 
which is on Beaver St.) is often even more animated, since the stocks 
and bonds of oil and mining corporations are more fluctuating than 
those of railway and telegraph companies. 


The New Bank Clearing House, in Cedar St., a few doors east of 
Broadway, first occupied in January, 1896, is of marble, carved in all 
the profusion of the Italian renaissance, its window spaces set off by 
Corinthian pillars, and surmounted by an entablature bearing carv- 
ings of the arms of the city and other designs. This is, in many 
respects, the most beautiful building in New York. The rooms of 
the Clearing House Association, composed now of sixty-six banks, are 
on the upper floor beneath the skylighted dome. The ground floor 
is occupied by the Chase National Bank, whose offices are finished in 
marbles, gilded stucco, and artistic metal work. The great steel safe 
in the basement is made to hold 210 tons of gold, or about $105,000- 
000 in coin. 


No. 10 Wall St., at the head of New St., is the splendid Astor 
building, on the site of the First Presbyterian Church. The grand new 
yellow brick structure opposite (Nos. 9-11) is the Mortimer building. 
This brings us to the corner of Broadway, where rise the massive 
walls of the United Bank building. Here are the rooms of its joint 


NEW “NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE” BUILDING 


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80 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


owners, the First National Bank and the Bank of the Republic; of 
several private banking firms, and of Southern and Western 
railways; and here General Grant had his offices during his brief and 
ill-fated career in the ‘‘ street.” 


Up Broadway to the City Hall. 


Some of the noblest and costliest business structures in the city 
stand on Broadway below Wall St. At No.1 is the exceedingly lofty 
Washington building. Nos. 5 to 11 are now covered by the 
Bowling Green offices, a Hellenic-renaissance, light-colored, sixteen- 


story building surrounding an open court. Its facade, 235 feet high, 
is one of the most massive and imposing in the city; and its door-. 
ways and details as well as its structure have an architectural excel- 
lence worthy of careful examination. ‘This edifice and the ground 
it stands on (about 160 by 190 feet) are valued at $3,600,000. At 
No. 18, next above the Produce Exchange, the grand front of the 
Welles building appears. No. 26 is covered by the massive structure 
of the Standard Oil Company, and No. 29 by the ornate Columbia. 
At No. 45 the richly carved facade and antique entrance of Aldrich 
Court will be admired, and the Consolidated Exchange is nearly 
opposite. Covering the numbers 64-68 is the lately erected home 
of the Manhattan Life Ins. Co., a double building of white sand- 
stone, fronting on both Broadway and New St., connected at the 
roof by a flying arch, and surmounted by a cupola containing the office 
of the U.S. Weather Bureau. In its rear rise the equally lofty domes 
of the Commercial Cable building, extending from New to Broad St. 

The dignified granite home of the Union Trust Company at No. 
80, and the Tower at No. 30, are conspicuous buildings; the last 
aamed stands on a lot only 22 ft. wide, yet it runs up to 13 stories 
(167 ft.) and contains 120 offices. All of these, like most of those 
mentioned heretofore, are new, architecturally imposing, splendidly 
fitted within, and return a fair rate of interest upon the investment. 

This brings us to Trinity Church, surrounded by its historic 
churchyard and looking straight down Wall St. 


“Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont 
To throng for trade and last quotations— 
Where, hour by hour, the rates of gold 
Outrival in the ears of people, 
The quarter-chimes spaleneer told 
From Trinity’s undaunted steeple.”’ 


But this noble house of worship is fully described in the chapter on 


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82 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


Churches and need not be related here, further than to say that 
the churchyard and the church itself are open at all suitable hours 
to visitors. Theclimbing of the steeple used to be one of the ‘‘ things 
to do,’’ but now a far better view of the city may be had from the 
towers of the Metropolitan Life building, or from the Singer build- 
ing and the Produce Exchange, to each of which the visitor is 
carried by an elevator. The magnificent Empire building, on the 
south, was built in 1898 on the site of the building where Russell 
Sage had his famous adventure with dynamite. 

The American Surety Company's building, at Broadway and 
Pine St., contains twenty-one fire-proof floors, in addition to 
basements. The building was designed by Bruce Price; the site is 
nearly square, and the foundation extends seventy-two feet below 
the street. The street facades are of granite and the rear walls of 
brick to the height of the fifteenth story, from which point granite is 
wholly used for facing all walls. The building contains about 500 
offices. Express elevators run to the upper floors, and other cars give 
access to all floors. Just above is the Boreel building (No. 119), largely 
occupied by insurance companies, and directly across the way, at No. 
120, rises the palatial home of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, 
known far and wide as the Equitable building. 

The Equitable.— This towering and sumptuous structure should 
not be neglected by the sight-seer. Its broad ground-floor corridor 
runs straight through to Nassau St., and forms a brilliant arcade, 
paved, walled, and adorned with vari-colored marbles, and illumi- 
nated by electricity, along which elegant little shops and restaurants 
are arranged ‘The letter chute and pneumatic despatch tubes on 
this floor should be looked at, too. In the basement are a grand 
array of hydraulic pumps and other machinery, and the largest elec- 
tric lighting plant in the city devoted to a single establishment. 
Taking any one of the several elevators the visitor may be carried to 


the top story and ascend to the roof, where an extensive view of the 
city is obtained — a pleasure which no one ought to forego. 


Liberty St., one of the few that cross lower Broadway, and which 
is devoted largely to machinery depots; Cortlandt St., leading down 
to the Jersey City ferry; Maiden Lane, the abode of jewelers, deal- 
ers in diamonds and gems, and the makers of instruments of precis- 
ion; Dey St., with the Western Union Telegraph Company’s build- 
ing on the corner, and John St., opening eastward, are crossed in 
succession as one walks on up Broadway. Out from the mass of 


ALLOUR OF THE, CITY, 83 


these streets rise certain very lofty and beautiful new buildings, of 
which that of the Lawyer's Title Insurance Company, running 
through from 44 Maiden Lane to Liberty St., is especially note- 
worthy, particularly for the graceful finish of its roof and the carv- 
ing onits northern facade. The Downing building, at 106-8 Fulton 
St., ought also to be noticed. The tall building at John and Broad- 
way, owned by the Corbin estate, is occupied by the Chatham 
National Bank and many jewelers offices. 

This brings us to Fulton St. named in honor of the man, who, if 
not wholly the originator, was certainly the practical inventor of the 
steamboat. It is an extremely busy street, all the way down to Ful- 
ton Market on one side, and to Washington Market on the other 
ine former home of 7he Evening Post, erected by William Cullen 
Bryant and his partners, stands upon the southeast corner, and begins 
the long catalogue of newspapers which congregate between here 
and the Brooklyn Bridge. The highly ornamented, tower-like build- 
ing of The Mazl and Express stands opposite, with its larger face 
on Fulton St. The opposite block is occupied by old St. Paul’s and 
its churchyard, and the Astor House (see Horers) fills the succeeding 
block. The Ann St. corner, where the Herald once stood, now 
supports the tall and ugly St. Paul’s building finished in 1897. 

Here, at the parting of the ways, the motley pile of the Post Office 
rears its huge bulk, with the City Hall in its rear. Broadway 
stretches northward west of it; to the right Park Row leads off at an 
angle toward Chatham Sq. and the Bowery. The rush and turmoil 
of traffic here are indescribable. At the very beginning of Park 
Row has risen one of the tallest business buildings of the city, 
called the Park Row, thirty-three stories in height. The old 
buildings beyond are covered with the signboards of newspapers 
known all overthe country. Beekman St. (named from that old farmer 
and tanner who owned all tlLis region, and the ‘‘ swamp” besides, 
long decades ago, and founded one of the wealthiest of Knickerbocker 
families) strikes across Park Row, passes (by Mail St.) to Broadway and 
continues, under the name of Park Pl., westward to North River. 
A few doors down Beekman is Temple Ct., the home of the Nassau 
Bank and of countless lawyers. On the other side of Beekman the 
iron and stone mass of the Potter building rises skyward, and next 
beyond, covering the point between Park Row and Nassau St., is the 
old 7imes building, beautiful in architecture and notable in its 
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84 HANDY GUIDEVTOWEW. YORK CITY. 


At the head of Nassau St., and just across from City Hall Park, is 
Printing House Square, an open, paved space in the center of which 
stands a statue of Benjamin Franklin, erected in 1872, after the 
design of Plassman and at the expense of Captain De Groot, formerly 
a steamboat commander on the Hudson; while Ward’s statue of 
Horace Greeley is just in front of Zhe Trzbune. Around this 
limited space, within easy hail of one another, are published the 
Daily Tribune, Sun, Journal, World, and Press, while several other 
daily and weekly newspapers in foreign languages are issued within 
a quarter of a mile. Here is the newspaper center of New York; 
and these precincts are hardly less wide-awake and active at mid- 
night than at midday. The cupola of the Wor/d building is open 
to visitors daily from gto 1. A notable addition to this towering 
group is the Tract Society’s new building, east of Nassau St., 24 
stories in height, and framed of steel. 

Here is the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge (see page 8), and, 
if this is your only opportunity to inspect the structure, it would be 
well to walk out a few hundred feet upon the promenade; or better 
yet, spare 15 minutes for a trip across it in the cars and return. 


In and Around the City Hall. 


This little spot of green, three-quarters of a mile above the Battery, 
which is called Czty Hall Square, and the fine building in its center, 
are interesting, not only as the place where the government of the 
city is conducted, but historically and architecturally. 

The Statue to Nathan Hale should not be overlooked. It is of 
bronze, by McMonnies, and stands in the southwest corner of the park, 
facing Broadway; and it is one of the most spirited and satisfactory 
statues in the city. It represents him ready for his heroic death. 

The Hall of Records, which cost $600,000 to build, will be seen at 
the corner of Chambers and Center Sts. The surrounding park is 
all that is left of the ancient Commons, which extended northward 
to the ‘‘Collect” or pond, beyond Duane St., where the Tombs now 
rears its grim quadrangle. Here stood the old ‘‘bridewell,” the alms- 
house, the ‘‘new” jail, and a gibbet, all near Chambers St., and all of 
which long ago disappeared. ‘The rapid growth of the town after the 
close of the Revolution made it expedient to abandon the old City 
Hallin Wall St., and to erect a newer and larger one, which, as public 
opinion decreed, had to be placed in the Commons. 


Photo. Copyright by Geo. P. Hall & Son. 
BROADWAY—Looking North from the Post Office. 


85 


CLINTON & RUSSELL, ARCHITECTS. 
HUDSON RIVER TUNNEL TERMINAL BLDG.—Corner Cortlandt, Fulton and Church Sts. 


A TOUR OF STHE CTY. 87 


The plans of architect John McComb were accepted in 1803, but it 
was not until 1812 that the building was really complete. The total 
expenditure upon it was less than $500,000, Marble was used for the 
front and ends; but no one urged anything better than brown-stone 
for the rear, since it was not supposed that anybody of any conse- 
quence would ever live north of this spot. In 1858 a spark from the 
fireworks, displayed from the roof at the celebration of the successful 
See of the first Atlantic cable, set fire to the beautiful cupola, 
which was destroyed, and the low dome over the rotunda was dam- 
aged. ‘These were clumsily replaced. A picture of the hall previous 
to that time, and of the architect’s drawing of the cupola, may be 
found in 7e Century for April, 1884, adorning an article upon this 
building, in respect to which the writer, Mr. Ed. S. Wilde, remarks: 

‘* Notwithstanding this change, and the damage done less by time 
than by stupidity, the hall stands to-day unsurpassed by any structure 
of the kindinthe country. The design is pure. No pains or research 
was spared. The capitals of the first [Ionic] and second [Corinthian] 
orders are marvels of execution. . . . The classic detail through- 
out is admirably wrought. . . . The principal elevations were 
undoubtedly those of Inigo Jones’s design for the palace at Whitehall, 
of which only the Banqueting House was built.” 

The City Government has its central administration in this build- 
ing, where are the offices of the Mayor, President of the Borough of 
Manhattan, City Clerk, and some other functionaries, and the meet- 
ing rooms of the Council and Board of Aldermen, Various munici- 
pal departments and bureaus have their offices elsewhere, but 
arrangements are making for the construction of a new city building 
opposite the northeast corner of the park. There is little to be seen 
inside the City Hall except the historic objects and paintings, mainly 
on public exhibition in the Governor’s Koom. 

The Mayor's Office occupies the southeast corner of the building 
on the ground floor, and contains one of the most valuable of the 
city’s works of art—the large full-length portrait of Lafayette, painted 
by Prof. S. F. B. Morse, afterwards inventor of the telegraph, during 
Lafayette’s famous visit to the United States in 1825; portraits of 
Mayors Paulding and Allen by Morse are also in this room, together 
with those of Fernando Wood, Phillip Hone, Kingsland, and other 
mayors, by Vanderlyn, Elliott, Inman, and other painters. The 
picture of Washington and his horse, hanging in the city clerk’s office, 
is unsigned, but is believed to be a poor specimen of Major John 
Trumbull’s work. 

The fine circular stairways in the rotunda are overlooked by the 
painted plaster original, presented in 1834 by Commodore Uriah 


88 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


P. Levy, U.S. N., of David d’Angers’s statue of Thomas Jefferson 
the bronze replica of which is in the National Capitol. Immediately 
opposite the head of the stairway is the entrance to the Governor’s 
Room, a stately apartment stretching along the front of the building, 
intended and formerly used for civic banquets and ceremonial occa- 
sions, and the scene of some of the most noted social incidents in 
the early history of the municipality. The old-fashioned furniture, 
including relics from a dignified past, make the room stately; and its 
walls are hung with full-length portraits of governors of the State and 
national heroes, many of which are fine examples of American art. 


The equestrian ‘‘ Washington” here is by John Trumbull, after a 
small original (now in Baltimore), and was made in pursuance to a 
resolution in 1790 by the Common Council, ‘‘ that the President of the 
United States be requested to permit Mr. Trumbull to take his 
portrait, to be placed in the City Hall, as a monument of the respect 
which the inhabitants of the city bear towards him.” ‘Trumbull 
assures us in his Autobiography that ‘‘ every part of the detail of the 
dress, horse, furniture, etc., as well as the scenery, was accurately 
copied from the real objects.” The full-length of Gov. George 
Clinton, as he appeared at Fort Montgomery, is also by Trumbull, 
was painted in 1791, and has been pronounced by critics the best 
example extant of Trumbull’s method. The same painter did the 
portrait of Alexander Hamilton (1804); the splendid picture of Gov. 
Morgan Lewis, in his uniform as a major-general in the war of 1812; 
probably that of John Jay, and some others. Among others of the 
older painters represented in this room, or elsewhere in the city’s art 
collection (scattered through the municipal offices), are John Vander- 
lyn, Thomas Sully, Henry Peters Gray, George Catlin (the Indian 
painter), William Page, C. W. Jarvis, Thomas Hicks, and Henry 
Inman. Of more recent artists, the best known is Daniel Hunting- 
ton, a good example of whose work is the portrait of Governor 
Morgan. An interesting relic here, old and carefully painted, but of 
unknown history, is the head of Peter Stuyvesant. Two other 
ancient and noted pictures belonging to the city are hung in the 
office of the water register, in the Tract Society’s building; these are, 
a portrait of Hendrik Hudson, of unrecorded history, and one claimed 
to be that of Christopher Columbus, a copy of a picture painted in 
1459, when Columbus was 23 yearsof age. The municipality owns 
many other portraits of distinguished men, which are scattered about 
various offices, and of which no authentic catalogue exists. 

Historzc Objects in the Governor’s Room include the punch-bowl 
presented to the city by Gen. Jacob Morton in 1812, upon which are 
printed views of the commercial aspect of the city of that day and 
an unnecessary injunction to the ‘‘ corporation” to ‘‘ Drink deep;” a 
bust of De Witt Clinton; battle flags of the Civil War; and a desk 
used by Washington, and other furniture brought from the original 
State House in Wal) St. 


A TOUR OF THE CITY. 89 


The Aldermanic Chamber is a large room on this oor at the 
eastern end of the building, which has no ornaments worth attention, 
but which has a public gallery whence the often spicy ‘‘ debates ” of 
the City Fathers may be listened to. At the western end is the 
Chamber formerly devoted to the Counczl, a very handsome room 
adorned by portraits of Presidents Monroe, Jackson, and Taylor, by 
Vanderlyn, and of Fillmore, Clay, and Jefferson, by C. W. Jarvis. 

The County of New York was formerly coextensive with the city, 
but was abolished by the charter of the city in 1897. Its offices and 
courts were in the Court House, the marble building facing Cham- 
bers St., in the rear of the City Hall, whose erection was the occa- 
sion of much of the fraud and peculation on the part of the ‘‘ Tweed 
Ring,” the investigation of which caused the downfall of that 
corrupt coterie of politicians in 1870. Here sit the various County 
Courts, several parts of the Supreme Court, and the Surrogate’s 
Court. Other civil tribunals have quarters elsewhere. 

The Criminal Courts have now a great building to themselves on 
Center St., connected with the Tombs Prison by an elevated and 
inclosed passageway spanning Franklin St., usually spoken of as 
the ‘‘ Bridge of Sighs.” 

This building is a handsome renaissance edifice of stone, red 
brick, and terra cotta, whose interior court is elaborately ornamented 
with carved marble and bronze. It contains not only courts, but the 
offices of the Streets Department and some other bureaus. Its inter- 
est to the visitor is confined, however, to the mural paintings of 
Edward Simmons, in the room of the Supreme Court, Trial Term, 
Part I, in the northeast corner, on the first floor. These are magni- 
ficent color-drawings covering the wall behind the judicial bench. 
The central one is America offering justice to the world; it is said 
that the countenances are those of the artist’s wife and children. 
On the right are the Three Fates—Clotho (youth), on the right, 
spins the thread of life from her distaff; Lachesis (middle age) twists 
and measures it in her hands; and aged Atropos cuts it off at death’s 
appointed time. The panel on the left is devoted to three male 
figures — Brotherhood uniting Science to Freedom. ‘The drawing is 
powerful, and the use of color, especially the management of the 
white drapery, is exceedingly strong and admirable. ‘They were 
made in 1895, under the direction of the Municipal Art Commission, 
which now controls all matters relating to the embellishment of the 
public buildings, the acceptance by the city of statues, etc. 


90 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


The Tombs is a nickname of the city prison, suggested long ago 
by the gloomy architecture, which made it for many years one of the 
landmarks of the city. In 1898 it was rebuilt into a greatly enlarged 
form, but nothing remains of its picturesque exterior, which was 
perhaps the best example of Egyptian style in the country. This 
prison occupies the entire block bounded by Center St. on the 
east, Elm St. on the west, Leonard St. on the south, and Franklin 
St. on the north, but its really grand proportions are dwarfed by its 
situation in a hollow. The site was formerly occupied by the 
Collect, a sheet of water connected with the Hudson River by a strip 
of swamp called Lispenard’s Meadows (whence the name of Lispenard 
St.), through which ran a little rivulet, afterwards enlarged into a 
barge-canal, on a line with the present Canal St., which derives its 
name from this circumstance. ‘‘ This canal,” says Lossing, ‘‘ was 
spanned at the junction of Broadway and Canal St. by an arched 
stone bridge which was subsequently buried when the ground was 
heightened by filling in and the canal disappeared.” ‘This filling in 
was the first public improvement undertaken at the close of the 
Revolution; the City Hall was then just rising and no buildings stood 
between its rear and the tanneries which bordered the swamp, where 
in winter merry parties went skating, and where, a little later, Fulton 
tested the models of his steamboat. The prison now covers the site of 
the pre-revolutionary gibbet, which was planted on a small island, and 
therefore stands upon ground long dedicated to the hangman’s use. 

Internally the prison is rather a series of buildings than a single 
structure. The cells rise in tiers one above the other, with a separate 
corridor for each row. Besides those awaiting trial in the Special 
Sessions and Magistrates’ Courts, persons accused or convicted of 
the more heinous crimes are kept here until they have been tried 
before the higher courts, or until they depart for the State Prison. 


Up Broadway and Across to Second Avenue. 


Having completed our sight-seeing in and around the City 
Hall, let us now take a car on Broadway and ride up the central 
part of that great thoroughfare. A short time ago the buildings 
here would have called for little notice, much less, admiration; 
but within two years this part of the famous street has been 
adorned by some of the finest of the tall commercial structures 
which are making a towering new New York. The magnificent 


PL AONE DIATOM DAS BEL EI SONS 91 


homes of the Postal Telegraph and Home Insurance companies, 
together filling the block between Murray and Warren Sts., have 
already been spoken of. Other very notable ones, farther up the 
street, are the buildings of the Shoe & Leather Bank, corner of 
Chambers; of the Mutual Reserve Fund, corner of Duaze; and 
the colossal structure of the New York Life Insurance Company 
at Worth St. Many, less in size, are handsome bits of architecture 
and a great improvement, outside and inside, over the past. 

We traverse the wholesale district nearly all the way and pass a 
long line of railway offices and miscellaneous agencies, as well as 
many retail stores; while here and there a hotel, like the Broadway 
Central (the old Metropolitan is gone) attracts attention. Many 
widely-known names will be observed upon the signs, but a more 
noticeable feature of this—the dry goods and importing — district is 
the prevalence of foreign names. At East 4th St. we stop the car, 
and getting off, walk to the right (one block) into Lafayette Pl.,a 
spacious street extending from Great Jones (E. 3d) St. to Astor P1.; 
in 1899 it was opened southward by a new street, and made contin- 
uous with the widened and extended Elm St. The great brick 
structure at the foot of the Place is a Roman Catholic home for 
street-boys, called the A/zsszon of the Immaculate Virgin, It grew 
out of the unselfish labors of a priest, Father Drumgoole, whose 
statue, in bronze and of heroic size, stands at the corner of the 
building. It is said to contain a miraculous well-spring. 

On the next corner (E. 4th St.) the De Vinne Press is conspicuous; 
there is where The Century and St. Necholas, and the fine publica- 
tions of the Grolier Club are printed. Diagonally opposite gleams 
the yellow and white Gothic Dzocesan House of the Episcopal 
Church; and the long line of Corinthian piilars beyond it mark 
Colonnade Row, the early home of the Astors and other great 
families of old New York. This is all that is left of the fine houses 
which a few years ago filled this quiet side street; but the massive 
brick and brown stone facade of the Astor Library still remains con- 
spicuous, and a moment should be spared by the tourist to enter and 
inspect its halls, its collection of portraits, of busts of ancient heroes 
and sages, and the enormous amount of literature displayed in the 
cases that line its walls. 

This brings us to the head of the Place, where the convergence of 
Astor Pl. and 8th St. forms an opening, where, not so many years 
ago, was the southern boundary fence of the farm of Capt. Richard 


92 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


Randall, the founder of the Sailor’s Snug Harbor on Staten Island. 
At the time of his death, in 1801, the large farm here, and his well 

known octagonal house, were valued at about $40,000; this endow- 
ment was so invested as now to be worth about $1 5,000,000. Upon 
the wedge between Astor Pl. and 8th St., now occupied by the tall 
and handsome new structure of the Wercantzle Library, stood until 
1890 a noble brick structure called Clinton Hall. It was built as a 
theater, in the early forties; and at its doors in May, 1849, occurred 
the Astor Pl. riot, precipitated by the rivalry between the Ameri- 
can actor, Forrest, and the English actor, Macready, which resulted 
ina mobbing -f the latter's company and friends at the close of a 
performance. The very ungraceful statue in front of Clinton Hall 
was erected by the postmen of the city te the Hon. S. S. (‘* Sunset”) 
Cox, as a memorial of his championship of their claims before Con- 
gress; but, unhappily, their gratitude was not accompanied by 
artistic judgment. Many electric cars start in Astor Place for the 
Fourth Avenue and Second Avenue lines. 

Let us now turn to the right and walk eastward toward Second 
Av. Fourth Av. is at once encountered, looking down which to the 
right the upper end of the Bowery is seen. On the point of land 
opposite, between the divergence of Fourth and Third Avs. from 
the Bowery, is the pile of brown stone sheltering the schools and 
reading rooms of the Cooper Union, for which a moment may be 
spared (see p. 183). In front of this building, facing down the Bow- 
ery, stands a bronze sitting monument to Peter Cooper, modeled by 
Augustus St. Gaudens, and erected in 1897. Opposite the rear of the 
Union is the Bible House (see p. 173). 

Continuing along 8th St., we cross Third Avy. underneath its 
elevated railway (9th St. station) and walk on past the short Stuyve- 
sant Pl., which takes its name from that old Knickerbocker, the 
last of the Dutch governors. He owned the lands hereabout, lived 
ina big stone farmhouse on the Bowery, and was buried in 1682 
at his chapel, just beyond, upon the site of which now stands S¢é. 
WUark’s Church (elsewhere described) within a green plat at the 
corner of 8th St. and Second Av. The large modern church beyond, 
’ facing us across the street as we come to Second Avy., is the Bapizst 
Tabernacle, which does much local missionary work among Orientals. 


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Stuyvesant Square and Gramercy Park. 


We now turn up Second Av. and find ourselves in a handsome 
thoroughfare, the houses along which (in this part) are almost 
wholly occupied by wealthy and influential Germans. On the corner 
of 13th St. is the building of the MW. Y. Eye and Ear Infirmary. 
At the left-hand corner of 14th St. stands the old Fourteenth 
Street Presbyterian Church. At 15th St., we find the beautiful 
Stuyvesant Square, occupying the space of four blocks, filled 
with fine old trees, and surrounded by elegant residences. This 
was a part of the Stuyvesant property, and its west side is 
bounded by Rutherford Pl., keeping the name of another old 
family, whose descendants dwell near by. The double-towered 
church overlooking the square is St. George’s (Prot. Epis.) which is 
said to have the largest seating capacity of any church in the city 
except the R. C. Cathedral. Beside it are the Rutherfold PI. 
lrtends Meeting House and school (Quaker) — plain brick structures 
without steeples or ornament. On this square remain former homes 
of many old New York families—the Fishs, Stuyvesants, De Voes, 


Rutherfords, and others. It is a charming dwelling place. 
Above Stuyvesant Sq. Second Av. grows more business-like; 


and leaving it we turn eastward and walk through £. 2o0/ff S?., 
which in this block is mainly given up to private stables. We re-cross 
Third Av. under its ‘‘L” road, and presently come to the fashion- 
able seclusion of Gramercy Park. 


Gramercy Park, whose name commemorates the old Gramercy 
farm, is the property of the owners of the surrounding property, and 
its privileges go with their title-deeds. Its gates are opened only by 
these proprietors, and its pleasant walks are reserved for the nurses 
and children of the neighboring families. Here dwells an aristocratic 
colony of old and wealthy families, who have thus far withstood the 
advance of the commercial tide northward, among whom are many 
well-known persons. On this 2oth St. side, at Nos. 116-118 was the 
home of the late Governor Samuel J. Tilden, a palace among palaces. 
Next to it, at No. 120, is the club-house of 7e Players, described 
under Ciusps. Other residences are those of the late Cyrus W. 
Field, to whom we owe the Atlantic cables, and of the late David 
Dudley Field, the eminent jurist; of Mrs. Courtlandt Palmer, at 
whose house, during the life of her husband, the Nineteenth Cen- 
tury Club was wont to meet; of John Bigelow, thelate Abram Hewitt, 
the Coopers, William Steinway, of piano fame, Nicholas Fish, 


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the late Joseph Howard, of newspaper repute, and many pro- 
fessional men. Irving Pl. abuts upon the south side of the Square, 
and is continued northward from it to Harlem as Lexington Av. 


Union Square and Central Broadway. 


Let us walk on through E. 20th St., as far as Fourth Av. On this 
corner stands the red-and-white Church of All Souls, where Doctor 
Bellows used to preach, and at 18th St. the immense Florence — the 
largest of the down-town apartment houses, and one of the most 
elegant. One block more and we reach 

Union Square.— We enter it at its quietest (northeast) corner, 
where E. 17th St. crosses Fourth Av. A large office building is on 
our right, and the Clarendon Hotelon the left. The Westminster is 
one block east, corner of 16th St. and Irving Pl. A broad paved space, 
called The Plaza, borders this northern side, and may be illuminated 
at night by the picturesque row of lamps along the curbing. Here 
military parades and out-door meetings, especially those called by 
labor agitators, often occur, and in summer a fower market is held 
here every morning from 5 to 8 o'clock. Overlooking this plaza are 
the windows of The Century and St. Nicholas editorial rooms. The 
Square itself is an oval park of three acres or so, shaded by large 
trees and ornamented by a handsome fountain and statues. On 
the Fourth Av. side are a row of hotels, restaurants, and shops. 
Sonth of the Square runs the busy line of 14th St.— where Keith’s 
Theater and several fine shops are conspicuous. Here, in the 
midst of a paved space, stands the fine equestrian statue of George 
Washington. It is of heroic size, was modeled by Mr. H. K. 
Browne, and originally stood on the ground now covered by the 
Cooper Union, 

Straight against the southern end of the square breaks the whole 
traffic-current of Broadway, to swerve to the west of it (‘‘ Dead Man’s 
Curve”) and sweep along its farther side, where 14th St. adds its 
quota. Here, where the crowd is densest, has been placed H. K. 
Browne’s bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln, seated in the chair 
of state with the emancipation proclamation in his hand. It was 
erected by popular subscription soon after Lincoln’s assassination. 
Facing down Broadway stands the life-size figure of Lafayette, 
which was designed by Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Liberty statue 
in the harbor and erected in 1876, 


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634 
640 
642 
660 
670 


680 
684 


720 


804 
805 
807 
817 


824 
825 
826 
827 
829 
830 
834 


838 
840 
842 
846 


852 
853 
856 


West Side. 


Church of the Ascension, 
First Presbyterian. 
The New York Hospital. 


Methodist Book Concern. 
Presbyterian Building. 


Albemarle Hotel. 
Hoffman House. 
Worth Monument. 
Martin's. 

Victoria Hotel. 
Marble Collegiate Church. 
Holland House. 
Hotel Cambridge. 
Waldorf-Astoria. 
Knickerbocker Trust. 
Brick Church. 


New York Library. 
Hotel Renaissance. 
Sherry’s. 


Lotos Club 


Collegiate Reformed. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. 


Mrs. William Ziegler. 
Mrs. Russell Sage. 

D. O. Mills. 

George Vanderbilt. 
William D, Sloane. 
William K. Vanderbilt. 
Frederick Gallatin. 

St. Thomas’s Church. 


Dr. W. Seward Webb. 

H. McK. Twombley. 

University Club. 

J. D. Rockefeller—13 W. 54th St. 


Fifth Av. Presbyterian Church. 
Edwin Gould. 

Harry Payne Whitney. 

Mrs. C. Vanderbilt. 


Piaza Hotel. 
Scholars’ Gate of Park. 


Street. 


No. 


549 
551 


579 
593 
597 
611 
617 


673 
677 
681 


689 
693 


745 


RESIDENCES, CLUBS, HOTELS, etc., on Fifth Avenue, starting from Eighth Street. 


Street. No. 


East Side. 
Hotel Lafayette—Brevoort. 
Hotel Grosvenor 


Hotel Kensington. 
Constable Building. 


Flatiron Building. 
Madison Square. 


Farragut Statue. 
Hotel Brunswick (Bldg.) 


Calumet Club. 


Tiffany Building. 

Union League Club. 

Grand Central Station. E. 42d. St. 
Temple Emanu-El. 
Delmonico’s. 

Lorraine Apartments. 

Gen. Thos. T. Eckert. 

Church of the Heavenly Rest. 
Windsor Arcade 

Miss Helen Gould. 

Robert Goelet. 

Mrs. Rosswell P. Flower. 

The Balgravia. 

Democratic Club. 

The Buckingham. 

St. Patrick’s Cathedral. 


Union Club. 


Jas. T. Pyie. 
O. H. P. Belmont. 
Mrs. Ex-Gov. Levi P. Morton. 


Wm. Rockefeller. 
Mrs. Calvin S. Brice. 
Hotel St. Regis. 


Mrs. C. P. Huntington. 
Mrs. Herman Oelrichs. 
Wm. E. Iselin. 

Hotel Savoy. 

Hotel Netherland. 


RESIDENCES, etc., above Fifty-Ninth Street, facing Central Park. 


Van Norden Trust Co. 
Metropolitan Club. 
Elbridge T. Gerry. 
W. E. Roosevelt. 

W. L. Bull. 

Mrs. W. E. Schmid. 
Clarence Postley. 
James B. Hagin. 
Howard Gould. 

Mrs. J. P. Kernochan. 
Wm. V. Brokaw. 

H. Bramhall Gilbert. 
E. J. Berwynd. 
George Crocker. 

H. Knickerbocker. 
Frank Jay Gould. 


W. Watts Sherman. 
Col. John Jacob Astor. 
Mrs. William Astor. 
Dr. Andrew J. White. 


Col. Oliver H. Payne. 
George Kidd. 
H. O, Armour. 


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864 
871 
874 
879 
880 
881 
883 
884 


908 
927 
931 
962 


963 
964 


1045 
1055 


Isaac Stern. 

Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes. 
Miss Whitney. 

Mrs. John H. Inman, 
Ogden Mills. 

Mrs. Davis Dows. 
Heber Bishop. 

John T. Sloane. 

Mrs. Martha T. Fiske. 
Lenox Library. 
James A. Burden. 
Pickardt House. 
Temple Beth-El. 
James D. Laying. 
Senator W. A. Clark. 
R. A. Robbins. 

C. F. Dietrich. 

Geo. H. Butler. 

H. H. Cook. 

Isaac V. Brokaw. 
Art Museum. 

R. Starr Dana. 

Gen. C. H. T. Collis. 
Dr. J. J. Lawrence. 
Andrew Carnegie. 


100 HANDY GUIDE .TO NEWHOVORK, Cl) Si 


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THEERIVE RS TAN DEAR BOR: 


No GREAT city in the world is so grandly situated with reference to 
the sea and navigable rivers asis New York. Other cities and sea- 
ports have beautiful, hill-girt harbors, as Yokohama and Rio Janeiro; 
other cities stand at the mouth of broad rivers, as New Orleans, Alex- 
andria, and Shanghai ; other cities spread, like Constantinople, along 
the curving shores of a strait, protected from the fury of the outer 
gales ; but only New York combines all these advantages in her in- 
sular site, under a beauty of landscape arrangement all her own and 
the admiration of the world. 

The horizon seen from her roofs is the blue Atlantic. The harbor, 
pleasingly irregular in outline, studded with islands, girt by low hills, 
and encompassed by cities and villages that glow brightly in the sun- 
shine, and at night form a galaxy of brilliants, lacks only the snows 
of Fujiyama, or the broken towers of the Organ Mts., to surpass 
Rio or Yokohama. The East River is an American Bosphorus, lead- 
ing from the sea to Long Island Sound; and the Hudson River (in 
connection with the Erie Canal) forms the water highway for a com- 
merce geographically as extensive as that of the Mississippi, the 
Hoang-Ho, or the Volga. It would be possible to embark in a canoe 
at the Battery, and never leaving it, save for an occasional short 
‘“‘carry,” to float to the borders of Alaska. 

Three grand divisions of this chapter present themselves— The 
Hudson or North River, the Last River, and the Harbor. 

The North River Water-front.— The available water-front of New 


LTHEKIVERS AND HARS OR, 101 


ROUGH—View from North River! 


York on the Hudson is said to be no less than 13 miles; at present, 
however, there is little commerce, and only an occasional temporary 
wharf, above 23d St. The water-front (nominally Twelfth Av.) above 
that is mostly given over to lumber and stone yards, factories, etc., 
which receive and discharge their heavy materials either from vessels 
or from the cars of the Hudson River R. R., whose line passes along 
the water’s edge from Spuyten Duyvil to 30th St. Washington 
Heights and Manhattanville occupy the elevated shore with pleasant 
residences down to the Ft. Lee ferry. Between 128th and 72d St., 
Riverside Park and Drive beautify the bank. At 42d and 34th are 
ferry and steamboat landings, and a few irregular piers are scattered 
along, broken again by the 23d St. ferry-landing, near which many 
steamboats touch or depart, and a few of the ocean steamships have 
their docks. This region is known in police circles as Hell’s Kitchen. 


Ocean Steamers.— The scenes daily enacted at one er another 
pier when the great ocean steamships are about to sail (Saturday is 
the special day) are well worth the attention of a visitor from the 
interior, to whom anything connected with the sea is interesting. 
The wharf and the ship are thronged with passengers and their 
friends, floral offerings from those who stay behind load the cabin 
tables, baggage is being stored with much noise, the roar of escap- 
ing steam adds to the uproar, carriages are constantly arriving and 
departing, peddlers shout their wares, and all is hurry-skurry until 
the gang-plank is drawn in and the steamer swings slowly out into 
the stream, amid cheers from the assembled crowd, and answering 
shouts from the passengers. 

It is well worth while to pay a visit to one of the ‘‘ ocean racers.” 
The greatest luxury in the fitting and furnishing is the rule on the 
steamers of the great lines. The table is supplied with every deli- 
cacy. There are superb smoking, card, and retiring rooms, electric 
belis with which to summon well-trained waiters, and the electric 


102 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


light is now incommon use. The transatlantic steamers have flush 
uecks with these accommodations below, but the coastwise steamers 
as a rule have cabins on deck, and are between a steamship and 
a river steamboat in appearance. 

From Canal St. down to Cortlandt, the water-front is largely 
devoted to domestic transportation and freight lines, and the ware- 
houses and sheds are monopolized by the produce and supply trade 
of the city. Flour, meal, butter, eggs, cheese, meats, poultry, fish, 
and fruit, are poured into this ‘‘lap of distributive commerce” by 
New Jersey and the counties lying along the Hudson River, to be 
sold and re-sold in Washington Market (q. v.). The piers are all 
numbered, Pier One being a noble stone structure, covered with a 
great iron shed, close by the Battery, which is reserved by the city for 
public uses, and becomes in summer a public pleasure resort. The 
front streethere is West St. It is filled for the most part with old and 
mean buildings, devoted to drinking saloons, eating houses, ship 
chandleries, and small clothing and provision stores, with many 
tenements in the upper part. The Belt Line of surface cars runs 
along the water-front from the Battery to 59th St., and from them 
can be seen all that one would ordinarily desire of this waterside. 


THE AQUARIUM—Formerly Castle Garden, 


THEY VIVERS*ANOAHARSOR: 108 


FORT WADSWORTH, STATEN ISLAND. 


A Trip Down the Bay. 


New York Bay is roughly lozenge-shaped, stretching into the Hud- 
son and East rivers at its northern end, and reaching its southern 
point out through the Narrows into the Lower Bay, which is a broad 
indentation from the Atlantic, protected by Sandy Hook and the Bar, 
which form a north-and-south barrier stretching from New Jersey to 
Long Island. The mass of Staten Island, reaching to within a mile of 
Long Island at the Narrows, divides the Lower from the Upper Bay, 
the letter of which is the Harbor, properly speaking. South of Staten 
Island is Raritan Bay, and between it and the New Jersey mainland 
winds the narrow tide-channel called Staten Island Sound, or the 
Arthur Kills. A glance at the map will make this plain. 

Tour of the Harbor.— Emerging from either river into the harbor, 
the Battery, and Governor’s Island are quickly left behind, and the 
massive commercial and office buildings at the lower end of the city 
group themselves into a magnificent mountain of stately archi- 
tecture, supporting banners of sun-gilded steam and smoke, and 


104 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


bristling with gables, turrets, and flagstaffs. At the right, as you 
gaze sternward, the breadth of East River, the delicately arched 
line of the graceful suspension bridge, and the looming heights of 
Brooklyn extend the picture grandly in that direction, while at the 
left are the broad level of the Hudson and the tall elevators and 
green background of Jersey City, far enough away to take on an 
ideal beauty. The focal and foreground point of the splendid scene 
is the Battery — green with trees and lawns— marked by the quaint 
structure of Castle Garden, and fringed with white, where the gentle 
surf breaks against its curving sea-wall. 


The Battery (as before this the reader will have ascertained) is the 
name applied to the triangular park at the southern extremity of the 
ity. Originally Manhattan Island was rounded at the end and bor- 
Jered with rocks, hardly covered at high tide. Upon the outermost 
>f these a fortification, in the form of a water-battery, was built very 
early in the history of the city, and rebuilt, but not much used at the 
time of the Revolution. This accounts for the name. Among the 
defenses projected at the close of the last century was a new fort here, 
upon the outermost rocks. It was completed in 1805, and was named 
Fort Clinton, after Gov. George Clinton. This is the structure since 
modified into Castle Garden, now the Aquarium. 


As originally built the fort was separated from the mainland of 
Manhattan Island by a strip of water which was bridged by a draw, 
and which was filled in later. It was a circular building of solid 
stone masonry, with walls in some places thirty feet thick, and was 
provided with barbette and casemate guns. It was liberally armed 
and garrisoned by the Government, and was considered by military 
men one of the best forts in the country. During the second war with 
England Fort Clinton was the center of a great deal of activity on 
the part of the citizens of this town. In 1814, the probability of a 
naval attack presented itself, and early in the spring the Common 
Council called a mass meeting of citizens to consider the situation. 
The citizens pledged themselves to rally for the defense of the city. 
Enlisting stations were at once opened, and companies and regiments 
were rapidly formed, and drilled opposite Ft. Clinton, which was 
much strengthened at the same time by gangs of citizens working 
with trowel and spade. ‘The intense excitement of the times, center- 
ing at the Battery, spread in all directions about the port, and works 
were thrown up on Brooklyn Heights, Ellis Island, Bedloe’s Island, 
and Staten Island, largely by volunteer labor of citizens. Forts were 
built all around the Lower Bay and along the shores of the East 
River and McGowan’'s Pass, and other strategic points were covered 
by achain of forts protecting the city on the north. For this mat- 


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THE RIVERS AND HARBOR. 105 


After the war Ft. Clinton was kept in good military shape fora 
few years only, because the defenses of other approaches to the city 
had made it practically useless. It was deeded to the: State in 1822. 
Then began its civil existence, which is more interesting than its mil- 
itary career. From 1824, when Lafayette landed there on his visit 
to this country, until 1853, when theatrical representations of a rather 
cheap sort were produced there, the fort was a popular resort. 

In 1847 Castle Garden was remodeled inside, shut in with a high 
roof, and fitted up as a luxurious place of amusement. The Havana 
Opera Company, the leading opera organization of the period, 
appeared there, and many fine plays were given. Then followed the 
wonderful introduction of Jenny Lind by P. T. Barnum, when the 
town went wild over the Swedish adzva. In 1855 Castle Garden 
became the State immigrant depot, and nearly ten millions of immi- 
grants passed through its halls. 

In 1891, however, the United States 
took charge of immigration, aban- 
doned Castle Garden, and established 
a new depot upon Ellis Island. This 
is asmall Island between the Liberty 
Statue and the Communipaw shore, 
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steamship agents, and 

by them conducted to the trains or steamers. The Government 
never loses sight of, nor ceases to protect, the immigrant until he is 
prepared to face the new life. A ferry-boat (free) runs between the 
Battery and the island every forty minutes during working hours. 


THE BARGE OFFICE. 


106 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


The Battery Park contains twenty-one acres, is shaded by large 
trees, and provided with a broad walk along the sea-wall and with a 
great number of seats, always crowded with quaint immigrants and 
loungers. At the eastern end of the sea-wall stands the Revenue 
Barge Office, a branch of the Custom House, surmounted by a 
tower go ft. high, and beyond that the group of ferries to Brooklyn 
and Staten Island known collectively as South Ferry. In 1893 the 
Battery was adorned by a bronze statue of Juhn Ericsson, the great 
engineer, which stands near the Barge Office. It was erected by the 
city, was designed by J. S. Hartley, and the granite pedestal bears 
panels in low relief commemorating the deeds of the ‘‘ Monitor.” 

The Aquarium.— Castle Garden has been restored externally, and 
refitted by the city (Park Department) as an aquarium, open freely, 
each day to the public. It is in charge of city officials, and will 
repay inspection. ‘The floor of the old fort is occupied by large open 
tanks for large fishes, seals, great turtles, etc.; and the walls are 
encircled by glass-fronted wall tanks containing an extensive display 
of the fishes of our waters, both salt and fresh. The circular gailery 
above them is occupied by tanks in which are living, amid fixed 
aquatic growths, arich collection of small corals, anemones, mollusks, 
crustaceans, and other creatures of great interest and beauty. 
Everything is fully labeled. Admittance 104. M. to 4 Pp. M., daily. 


The Liberty Statue. 


Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty stands upon Bedloe’s Island, 12, miles 
southwest of the Battery and on the western edge of the path of com- 
merce. Its base is surrounded by the double, star-shaped walls and 
salients of old Fort Wood, which partly hide the pedestal, but lend 
dignity to the noble figure. This colossal figure, the largest statue 
of modern times, is made of hammered: plates. of copper, is 152 ft. in 
height and stands upcn a pedestal 155 ft. high. 

August. Bartholdi was a French sculptor, already known to Amer- 
icans by his statue of Lafayette in Union Sq., and by other works. He 
was impressed during a voyage to the United States by the eager- 
ness with which the immigrants crowded the decks for a first glimpse 
of the new land to which they were coming with such hope and con- 
fidence, and the thought came to him, as Mr. Charles Barnard has 
well written it: ‘‘ What a joy and encouragement it would be to these 
people if they could see something to welcome them, to remind them 
that this is arepublic. What if there stood, like a great guardian, at 


THE RIVERS AND HARBOR. 107 


the entrance of the continent, acolossal statue—a grand figure of a 
woman holding aloft a torch, and symbolizing Lzberty Enlightening 
the World!” When he went home he proposed that a popular sub- 
scription should be opened in France to present to the people of the 
United States such a statue. The idea took the fancy of the French. 
More than $200,000 was collected, and in 1879 Mr. Bartholdi began 
work upon the statue, the sketch of which had been approved by 
ccitics aud people alike. The process of building this cclossal figure 
was most interesting, and was graphically detailed by Mr. C. Barnard 
in St, zcholas for July, 1884, quoted below: 


Structure of the Statue.-—A monolith so enormous as this was 
designed to be, could never be transported or erected; and if built up 
in courses it would crumble and become unsightly. Bartholdiremem- 
bered the statue erected centuries ago by ‘‘ Il Cerano” on the shore 
of Lake Maggiore, which was made of copper, in thin sheets, ham- 
mered into shape and laid upon a frame of stone, iron, and wood; and 
he decided that his statue must follow the same method. A begin- 
ning was made by executing a model in plaster just one-sixteenth the 
size of the intended statue. Next another model four times as large 
was constructed, and carefully studied and worked over to make it as 
perfect as possible. ‘This quarter-size model being finished, the task 
followed of making the full-sized model in plaster. But this had to 
be cast in sections, and these fitted together. To mold these full- 
sized copies of the quarter-sized model, which had been cut into 
suitable pieces, was a work of great ingenuity. Their weight required 
a support, and a framework of laths was first erected over which the 
plaster was roughly spread, and then was chiseied and smoothed by 
skillful workmen into an exact similitude of the smaller model. 

These sections in plaster completed, came the work of making 
wooden molds that should be exact copies both in size and modeling 
of the plaster. ‘‘It was a long, tedious, and difficult piece of work; 
but there are few workmen who could do it better than these French 
carpenters. Each piece was a model of a part of the statue, exactly 
fitting every projection, depression, and curve of that portion of the 
figure or drapery. Into these wooden molds sheets of metal were 
laid, and pressed or beaten down until they fitted the irregular sur- 
faces of the molds. All the refoussé, or hammered work, was done 
from the back, or inside of the sheet [which varied from one to three 

ards square]. . . . . In this complicated manner, by making 
hae a sketch, then a quarter-size model, then a full-sized model in 
sections, then hundreds of wooden copies, and lastly by beating into 
shape 300 sheets of copper, the enormous statue was finished. These 
300 bent and hammered plates, weighing in all eighty-eight tons, 
form the outside of the statue Thev are very thin, and while they 
fit each other perfectly, it is quite plain that if they were put together 
in their proper order they would never stand alone; . . . . there 
must be also a skeleton, a bony structure inside, to hold it together, 


LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD—Bedloe’s Island, New York Bay, 
Statue by Bartholdi. 


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A RAMBLE AT NIGHT. 


Some suggestions as to a good route for a nocturnal ramble, and 
the sort of thing a person may expect to see, may be useful. If you 
are in search of evil, in order to take part in it—don’t look here for 
guidance. This book merely proposes to give some hints as how the 
dark, crowded, hard-working, and sometimes criminal portions of the 
city look at night. | 

Supposing that you start from an uptown hotel, say at 9 o'clock, 
a good plan would be to take the Sixth Av. El. Ry. to Bleecker St. 
station. This isa shady corner, in more sensesthan one. The jumc- 
tion of Bleecker and South Fifth Av.is quite roofed over by the 
elevated station and tracks, and the latter street is one of the most 
poorly lighted in town; moreover the locality is largely inhabited by 
negroes, mainly of a very low class, becoming still more low and 
vicious as you go down Sullivan and Thompson Sts., below Bleecker; 
and a large proportion of the white residents, American, Italian, 
French, and Irish, are fond of shady places and shady ways. 
Wander about these gloomy blocks a bit, if you like, but keep your 
eyes open— not so wide, however, as would be advisable four or five 
1ours later. East of South Fifth Av., Bleecker St. is brighter, and 
chere are several queer little French and Italian restaurants. Fifty 
years ago this street was the height of fashion, and the doorplates of 
the fine old houses, many of which yet remain in melancholy dirt and 
ruin, bore names now counted i igh up on Fifth or Madison avenues. 
But great business houses are rit ug year by year on their sites. and 
even the devil is being ousted from all this evil part of town by com- 
merce and manufactures. The huge and handsome Mills Hotel No. 
1 stands here. Wooster and Green Sts., next east of South Fifth 
Av., which twenty years ago were infamous, are now walled in by 
huge factories and commercial buildings. 

Two blocks further on we come to Broadway, quiet and gloomy 
here, since almost every store is closed at 6. Wecross it and walk 
one block east to the head of Mulberry St., just beyond which are 
the rooms of two street missions, one of which, the /lorence Mzssion, 
is widely known for its work among the women of the street. 
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Headquarters, whose two green lanterns, erect and firm before the 
door, are no more watchful than the power within, with its hand on 
the pulse of the metropolis—unceasingly vigilant, unfailingly ready, 
minute by minute, day after day, year in and year out. 

The Police Force.—No part of the city government is so apparent, 
to both citizens and strangers, asthe police. The first man the visitor 
sees, as he alights from his incoming train or boat, is a policeman. 
The government of the force has gone through many changes, by the 
latest of which it is governed by one commissioner who appoints the 
Chief of Police. Superintendence of Elections is no longer a police 
department duty. The Headquarters of the force isat 300 Mulberry St. 


The boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx contain thirty-eight 
precincts, each of which has its own station house, with quarters for 
the men, cells for prisoners, and, in a few, a matron for the care of 
women prisoners. Attached to each one are two patrol wagons. Each 
precinct is commanded by a captain, who has under him sergeants 
and roundsmen — the latter ‘* going the rounds” to see that the patrol- 
men are at their posts, or ‘* beats,” and doing their duty properly — 
and a quota of privates, or ‘ patrolmen.” Many of the men on duty 
in parts of the city are mounted on horses. A large squad patrol 
many streets upon bicycles, and the men of the Harbor Police 
patrol the river margins in rowboats, with headquapters on a steamer. 
A “steamboat squad” is detailed in summer to accompany all the 
pleasure boats plying to suburban and seaside resorts, and the special 
water excursions and picnics so frequentat that season. The Aroad- 
. way Sguad is a picked body of favored officers, of peculiarly tall and 
fine appearance, who are complimented by being assigned to day posts 
pon the great thoroughfare. The Defective Bureau is composed of 
a large number of skillea officers detailed for detective work, each witb 
the rank of sergeant. The force now numbers, all told, about 5,000 
men in old New York, and 3,000 more in Brooklyn, Queens, and Rie" 
mond boroughs. 


Police Headquarters (Grand and Center Streets) is connected 
with all the stations, Bellevue Hospital, and some other points by 


special telegraph wires, and all arrests, fires, accidents, and every 
occurrence of any moment, in any part of the city, is at once commun- 
icated to the Headquarters’ operators. Unless there are ‘‘ reasons 
of state” for keeping it a secret, a memorandum of this information 
is at once placed in the bands of the reporters for the press, who are 
on duty at Police Headquarters, and who never for a moment, day or 
night, leave the place ‘‘ uncovered.” ‘This routine explains how so 
great a quantity of news is gathered. The same system is applied 
to the other boroughs. 


The Health Department long had its ..ffices in this building, but 
now is quartered in its own premises, Sixth Av., cor. 55th St. 
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112 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


corner gradually shapes itself out of the shadows as the image of the 
genial Puck, whose bright weekly is printed in that great building. 
On this northeast corner of Mulberry and Houston ran for many years 
the notorious pugilistic resort and concert hall of Harry H7l/,; but the 
doughty proprietor closed his doors some years ago. ‘Turning east 
through Houston St., we walk two blocks to the Bowery (of which 
more presently), anl jumping upon acar ride down half a mile to 
Worth St., which opens as a broad thoroughfare westward from the 
lower side of Chatham Sq. We walk rapidly two or three hundred 
yards along it, until we suddenly find ourselves in an open, triangu- 
lar space, where several narrow and irregular streets converge. This 
is the 


Five Points.—Thirty years ago Worth St. was called Anthony, and 
did not extend through from Chatham §$q. to Broadway, as it now 
does, but stopped midway at ‘‘the points,” where its intersection 
with Park and Cross (now Baxter) Sts. formed five triangles. The 
ground was low, and had from the first been avoided by those who 
could choose a more desirable site for their buildings. On each of 
these points, years ago, stood grog-shops of the lowest character, and 
the whole neighborhood was filled with infamous houses and tumble- 
down tenements, inhabited by the poorest and most abandoned 
persons—the human drainage of the city. It would be unpleasant 
to insist upon ali the disagreeable features. What remains even yet 
is indicative of avery bad past, though the light has been let in by 
the opening of Worth St., the paving of the little ‘‘ square,” the 
demolition of many of the old rookeries, and the closing of such 
alleys as ‘‘Cow Bay” and ‘‘ Donovan’s Lane.” Even the old ‘‘Bloody 
Sixth” police station in Franklin St. was abandoned a dozen years 
ago. Nevertheless you may listen to the noise of fighting any night 
_ now in that region, especially in the Italian quarter just north of it; 
and the counters of the dark and dreadful saloons are chipped with 
knife-thrusts and dented with pistol-bullets. 


Where next? Baxter St., which leads straight through from the 
Five Points to Chatham St., is dark and quiet. The ol’ clo’ shops 
are shut, and all the Cohens have gone to bed, In the day-time this 
narrow, short, and dirty thoroughfare will repay the curiosity of any 
sight-seer who has the temerity torun the gauntlet of ‘pullers in.” 
The street, more commonly spoken of as ‘* the Bay,” has always been 
known for its cheap clothing business, and shop after shop on both 
sides is given up to our Hebraic brethren, who appropriate the greater 
part of the sidewalk for the display of their various ‘‘ bargains.” 
Swarthy men and sometimes girls entreat you to enter and buy, not 
only, but seize your arm and will drag you in, if they can, despite the 
protests and revilings of the salesman next door, ‘The complacency 


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with which you are assured that black is white and that other contra- 
dictory things are similar, in order to effect a sale, is amusing — 
objectively. 

It is too far to go to sce the Italian rag-pickers in Crosby St., but 
we can find a great colony of the same people in Little Italy, just 
above here ; so let us go to 

The Mulberry Bend.—Mulberry St., here at its southern end, is 
narrow, dark, and dirty. Six-story tenements, whose unwashed win- 
dows scarcely disclose any evidence of the lamp-light within, rise in 
a solid wall on either hand. ‘Their first floors are occupied by shops 
of various kinds—all aark now, but blurs of red and yellow light at 
each corner, and once or twice in the middle, of every block, show 
that the saloons are still open. Along the curbstone, every two or 
three doors, are groups of trucks,whose drivers and horses are stabled 
somewhere in the midst of these tenements. It it not much after 
ten o'clock, and plenty of people are in the street; if it be one of the 
hot summer evenings, everybody is out, half of them asleep on the 
trucks, or in door-steps, or on the cellar doors, where the mothers 
have brought pillows, or maybe a mattress, for their children to lie 
upon; and there they will sleep all night rather than stifle inside 
those awful hives of neglected humanity. 

The Park recently opened here, has cleared away some of the worst 
of these squalid tenements, and opened the ‘Points’ and the ‘‘Bend” 
to fresh air and green grass. It has a rest-house, fountains, and in- 
numerable seats. A great new schoolhouse is close by. On all sides 
are pictures worth an artist’s study, especially on a summer evening. 

Here is a little street coming in from the right, and the smoky 
torches of a fruit-seller gleam upon the brass buttons of two police- 
men who are watching what seems to be material for a very pretty 
row, in a group of small, lithe, dark men excitedly quarreling and 
gesticulating. Not a word of English is heard— only a rough, gut- 
teral Italian. Perhaps they will take it out in words—perhaps a 
knife may flash out, a cry be heard, and the cat-like muraerer gov 
away, even though policemen are so close at hand, for his countrymen 
will help him to escape, in order that they may institute the vendetta 
and become their own avengers. We move on. ‘The way is mort 
crowded, and as we jostle through it is hard to believe this is no 
Naples. The street curves slightly to the left. More dark-skinned 
men and bonnetless women — who ever saw one of these s¢7gnorinas 
wear a hat ?— throng the sidewalks and squat in the doorways of the 


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little shops, whose thresholds are below the sidewalk, or lounge upon 
the trucks, or pass in and out of a concert hall where dancing is going 
on. Let us step into this groggery kept by a man whose name is 
honored in Rome, if his sign may be believed, and get a glass of 
beer. Itis a dark, smoky little bar-room, filled with Italians. No 
doubt they look ferocious, if your fancy insists upon it, but to me 
there seems only a sort of brutish curiosity in their glances. ‘The 
beer comes in glasses holding nearly a quart, and only three cents is 
asked; but if it was not altogether obtained by emptying the dregs of 
the beer-kegs in other saloons, the stock was certainly eked out in 
that way. We take just asip for politeness sake and go out again. 
This is the Mulberry Bend—in some respects the most unmanage- 
able crime-nursery in the city. It is quiet enough, as arule, how- 
ever, and we turn back and saunter through the stinking shadows of 
Bayard St. (the very worst part of a very bad street named after the 
pattern of gentility) without any sensations of alarm, since no ven- 
detta has been declared against us in ‘‘ Little Italy.” 

Chinatown and the Chinese.—At the top of the slope of Baxter St. 
is Mott St., and here in daylight an extremely picturesque and for- 
eign scene is presented as you look back at the rickety tenements 
and the chaffering crowd of excitable hucksters. Mott St., from 
Bayard to Chatham Sq., is the heart of Chinatown. Here, or in the 
immediate neighborhood, the majority of the 7,000 Chinese in New 
York has its home, though its work may be done to a large extent 
somewhere else. Here are the joss houses, the civil officers of *he 
colony, the merchants, the tailors, and shoemakers, the lodging- 
houses and restaurants, the gambling rooms and opium-smoking 
places. 

The latest estimate by the Chinese Consulate (18 Broadway) places 


the number of Chinese in New York and Brooklyn at about 7,000. 
All come from a little territory in the province of Kwantung, in part 
known as the Sam Yup, or Four Towns, and the Sz’ Yup or Three 
‘Towns. 

Some thirty ‘‘companies” of merchants are enumerated in New 
York, and many of them do a large business, not only at home, but 
in supplying Chinese shops in outlying towns. ‘Their stock is mainly 
imported direct, and includes a wide range of goods. ‘These stores 
are always open, of course, to visitors, and in each of them a clerk or 
proprietor speaking English will be found. The largest wholesale 
ones are in Mott St. and Chatham Sq.; but the most showy retail 
shops are those in Pell St., at the lower end of the Bowery. Their 
habits of personal cleanliness are maintained, their streets are by 
all odds the cleanest in that part of the city, the buildings in which 


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they live are well swept and kept in good repair, and their quarters, 
though smelling of incense smoke, and otherwise strangely malodor- 
ous to Caucasian nostrils, and despite their crowded condition, far 
surpass in wholesome cleanliness the tenements of the foreigners 
around them, 


The hour of this walk is too late, of course, to enable us vo enter the 
stores, whose upright signs, with big carved characters and little 
knots and tassels of cloth, glimmer picturesquely in the gaslight. 
What we can see through the darkened windows induces a resolve to 
come here again by daylight. The front of a building on the eastern 
side of the way attracts attention. It is covered with balconies hung 
with gaudy signs and ornaments, and illuminated by large octagonal 
lanterns of colored glass. This is the new temple or joss house at 
No. 16, which is worth a visit. 

A Joss House.—We enter the hall, and climb two pairs of stairs to 
the front room, where the noise made by our entrance brings an aged 
and shriveled attendant, who bows his welcome, shaking his own 
hands the while, instead of shaking ours. One side of the room is 
filled with a great shrine of magnificently carved ebony columns and 
arches, within which carved figures covered with gold leaf are placed, 
the whole resembling somewhat the stage-setting of a tiny theater. 
The extreme back of the shrine is occupied by a half-length painting 
representing, they tell you, Gwan Gwing Shing Te, the only original 
god of the Chinese Empire. On his left 1s the woman-like figure of 
his grand secretary, Lee Poo, and on his right, in fiercest battle array, 
is Tu Chong, the grand body-guard. A row of candles, set like theater 
footlights, illuminates the painting, and brings out all its barbaric 
splendor. About three feet in front of the shrineis a massive carved 
table upon which are arranged the brass jars, joss sticks, sandle-wood 
urns, and all the offerings and sacrifices peculiar to this worship. It 
is before this table, after lighting his incense sticks and his sacred 
paper, that the Mongolian worshiper makes his devotional salaams, 
pours his tiny libation of rice wine, and repeats the ritual of prayers 
enjoined upon him.’ The religion of this people, as manifested here, 
is, however, accompanied by little sacredness. 


A Chinese Theater is conducted at 5 Doyer St., which may be 
visited by anyone, and (in parties) by ladies. The plays and audi- 
ence are thoroughly and characteristically Chinese, by actors of abil- 
ity, are never offensive, and often are comical. Admission, 25 cents. 
Confections and sugar-cane are sold, and everybody smokes. 


Several Chinese restaurants are carried on in this quarter, and on 
Saturday nights and Sundays, when Chinamen flock in here to 
visit friends and make purchases, they are crowded. ‘The largest 
one is kept by Kee Keng Low on the third floor (front) of 16 Mott 
St. Another is at 16 Doyer St. 


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The Bowery,—It is only eleven o’clock, and the Bowery is still 
crowded with people, and brilliant with innumerable lights along its 
whole length. There is no other such a street in America. ‘‘Initis 
probably represented every civilized nation on the globe, and it is un- 
questionably a democratic street. Itis the antithesis of Broadway, 
and the grand avenue of the respectable lower classes.” Years ago 
it was the resort of a peculiar type of braggart ruffians, the Bowery 
boys, who were the heroes of that New York which was guarded by 
the ‘‘ leather head.” police, and ran to fires ‘‘ wid de machine” of their 
favorite volunteer company. Dickens found here material to his 
tuste. No chapter in his ‘‘ American Notes” is more graphic or true 
than that upon the Bowery ; and Thackeray was anxious first of all 
to see this street and its habitues. But that time passed with the era 
of the war and the coming of the immigrants. Americans have 
almost disappeared from that part of New York, and the swaggering 
‘‘boy” has departed. The ‘‘ young feller” who remains is really no 
better, but he is more showy, less troublesome, and is in turn giving 
way to the German and Jew, good-natured and frugal, even in their 
amusements. Larger buildings and better shops are exhibited year 
by year, and the Bowery is gradually but steadily rising. 

The Russian Quarter.—It is getting late. We must hurry east- 
ward. Here is Chatham Sq. again. A maze of streets radiates off at 
the left—dark, narrow streets leading down toward the East 
River, and we can see in the distance a few of the lights on the 
Brooklyn Bridge, and distinguish against the sky the shadowy blur 
of atower. Let us follow the line of the Second Av. El. Ry. up Di- 
vision St. as faras Market St., running the gauntlet of hook-nosed 
girls in front of the millinery stores, who, from pure force of habit, 
will beseech us to go in and buy something ‘‘ for your lady, sir.” It 
is an odd bit of the city. Then we turn down Market, a broad and 
once important street, which runs down to East River, and cross 
over one block to East Broadway, a semi-fashionable thoroughfare 
half a century ago, but now the central avenue of the Russian and 
Polish quarter, so far as these people can be separated from Jews, 
Bohemians, and Hungarians, who throng a square mile of marvelously 
crowded tenements in this region. Here, among his countrymen, 
dwells many a political refugee or escaped soldier from the dominion 
of the Tsar ; or if, as is usually the case in New York, the education 
of the exile enables him to earn enough to live in a better pice, he is 
often to be seen here as a visitor. Signs in Russian letters au fre- 


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quent. One o: these, over the door of a basement liquor saloon, sug- 
gests to us that we go in and get a glass of vodka, or Russian spirits; 
there is little in it that differs from any bar-room of the vicinity, and 
the drink is nothing but poor whisky. The sign of a Russian res- 
taurant attracts us. We find a neat room, once the parlor of a big 
house, where a mother and two comely daughters are chatting with 
half a dozen dark-skinned young men, who sit smoking cigarettes at 
small tables. We get some bread and coffee, and go our way, having 
seen little if anything out of the ordinary. The Russian, the Pole, 
the Bohemian, is lost at once in the American ; but the Jew remains 
a Jew. 

In ‘ Judea.’’—We turn disappointedly out of East Broadway, and 
wander about the narrow dirty streets northward; and westward- 
Forsythe, Allen, Orchard, Ludlow, Hester, and Canal. Everywhere 
six and seven storied brick tenement houses are crowded to their eaves 
with humanity. One single square mile in this part of town holds a 
quarter of a million persons. Nine-tenths of them are Germans or 
Germanized Jews and Bohemians. They are the hardest-working 
part of the population, and spend the least of what they earn. The 
Israelites are the most interesting. They form a community by 
themselves, supplying each other’s wants and having communication 
only to a limited extent with outsiders. Here is where the fakers 
and peddlers who throng the lower part of the town get their supplies 
and learn how to earn their livelihood, even before they have any 
idea of the language of the country. 

There is no special reason why we should come to see them at 
night, save for the picturesqueness of it; except on Thursday night 
(preceding the Hebrew Sabbath, which begins at Friday’s sunset) 
when the streets, and especially Hester St., are crowded to suffoca- 
tion with crowds of strollers and buyers of the holiday’s provisions, 
and long lines of hand-carts, selling every conceivable thing and illu- 
minated by flaring oil-torches. The little shops open their doors to 
the widest, and upon every cellar door some zealous merchant dis- 
plays a heap of second-hand goods, and howls out the name and 
virtues of his wares. 


Fire Department.—Few things interest the stranger in New York 
more than to go to a fire and see the work of what is conceded to be 
the most scientific and capable fire department in the world. It is 
culed by a commissioner, appointed by the mayor, from headquarters 


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at 157 E. 67th St., but practical direction is in the hands of a chief, 
who has under him a deputy for Brooklyn. The old city contains 
over 100 engine, hook-and-ladder, and water-tower companies, 
grouped into battalions under battalion chiefs, and so arranged in 
districts that a certain amount of apparatus responds to any alarm in 
its district, and more is called by additional telegraphic signals. 


‘TRINITY CHURCH —Lower Broadway, opposite Wall Street. 


VILE 


CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS AND 
BENEVOLENT WORK. 


The Dutch Reformed Church has the honor of possessing not only 
the oldest Protestant organization in New York, but in the Western 
hemisphere. This patriarch is the Collegdate D. F. Church Soczety, 
whose 250th anniversary was celebrated Nov. 21, 1878. The finest 
of the present Dutch Reformed churches, architecturally, is the 
Third (or Fifth Avenue) Col/egzate at Fifth Av. and 48th St., which 
exhibits a wealth of study in its constructive and other decorations. 
The Bloomingdale Church(W End Ave. and 106th St )isahandsome 
building of white and gray stone. Another handsome edifice belongs 
to the Second Collegiate of Harlem, at Lenox Ay. andi23d St. The 
caurch at Fifth Av. and 29th St. is known as the Holland Church,and 
is a fine building of Vermont marble in the Romanesque style. In 
addition to those heretofore mentioned, some twenty other churches 
and missions of this denomination are scattered about the city and its 
northern suburbs, a recent addition to the list being the Hamz/ton 
Avenue Church,at W. 145th St. and Convent Av., which stands upon 
what was once the home estate of Alexander Hamilton. 

Episcopalian.— Next in antiquity as an organization is the Prot- 
estant Episcopal (Church of England), where, of course, Trinity 
heads a list notable for splendid architecture as well as good works. 
The residence of the bishop is at 347 W. 89th St., and his office at 
113 West goth St. A cathedral to cost several millions is being 
built presently upon the high ground near the lower end of 
Morningside Park (W. 110th St.). The oldest organization in the 
denomination and in the city (except the Dutch Reformed). and the 
wealthiest, and most ritualistic one in the United States, is 

Trinity Church.—It is on Broadway, facing Wall St., and the 
Rector St. station of the Sixth Av. El. Ry., whose trains overlook 

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its churchyard, is close in its rear. The land on which-Trinity 
Church now stands was the old West India Company’s farm, before 
the Conquest of Manhattan Island by the English. It then became 
‘‘the King’s farm,” and in 1705 was granted to this, the Colonial 
Church. These lands embraced the entire tract lying along the 
North River, between the present Vesey and Christopher streets. 
Much of it was subsequently given away to institutions of various 
sorts, but enough remains to constitute a property yielding about 
$500,000 income annually and worth an enormous amount at the 
market prices of real estate in that part of the city. This income is 
spent in the maintenance of old Trinity and six chapels, besides aid 
to many subsidiary missions in various squalid parts of the city, to 
supporting a long list of charities, and to the care of Trinity Ceme- 
tery in Manhattanville. The original church, built in 1697, and 
rebuilt in 1737, was destroyed in the great fire of 1776. It was not 
replaced for several years, St. Paul’s giving its hospitality to the 
parishioners; but in 1788 a new church was erected which stood for 
half acentury. It was then torn down, and upon its site arose the 
present edifice, which was completed in 1846. 

Trinity Churchyard is beautiful in itself, and full of associations of 
monuments of historical interest. Many of the graves go back to the 
17th century. Here are buried many well-known persons, among 
them Alexander Hamilton. It is open to the public daily. 

Of the monuments the most conspicuous is the ‘‘ Martyrs,” in the 
northeast corner, near the street. This was erected by the Trinity 
corporation in memory of the American patriots who died in Pritish 
prisons in this city during the Revolutionary War. Another promi- 
nent monument, at the left of the entrance, is the one to the memory 
of Captain Lawrence, of the man-of-war Chesapeake, whose dying 
cry, ‘‘ Don’t give up the ship,” is carved upon its pictured sides. 

St. Paul’s Church, which stands on Broadway between Fulton and 
Vesey Sts., and nearly opposite the Post Office, is in reality only a 
‘‘chapel” of Trinity Parish. It is the rear which is seen upon Broad- 
way, the church originally facing toward the North River and com- 
manding a view of it. ‘This edifice was built in 1764-6, and althougk 
the third in the order of its foundation is now the oldest church build- 
ing in the city. ‘Its architecture is good and impressive, and its 
interior a chaste und carefully preserved example of the ecclesiastical 
fashion of 150 years ago. Its venc.able walls have seen many mem- 
orable ceremonies, and in its churchyard are resting the bones of 


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famous men and women. In the rear wall, facing Broadway, is a 
memorial tablet to General Richard Montgomery, the hero of Quebec, 
while in the churchyard are monuments to Thomas Addis Emmet, an 
Irish patriot, the actor, George F. Cooke, and others. 


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makes a pleasing foreground to one of the most gratifying architec- 
tural pictures in New York. Its spire is particularly graceful, and 
contains a melodious chime of bells. The windows and interior 
of Grace Church are very rich in decorations; and this church 
shares with St Thomas the most fashionable weddings in the city. 
The Chantry—a small addition on the south side of the church, used 


122 HANDY AG OTDG TON LWAY OR KACIIVY; 


for daily services—was erected by money given by the late Miss 
Catherine Wolfe. A building connecting the church and the rectory 
is used as a vestry and clergy house, and contains a library and read- 
ing room, open to members of the church; in the rear is aschool. 
Back of the church, in Fourth Av., is a day nursery, erected by Mr. 
Levi P. Morton, in memory of his wife, for the reception of young 
children during the hours their mothers are at work, and known as 
the Grace Memorial Home. Grace Chapel belongs to the parish. 


St. George’s on East 16th Street, overlooking Stuyvesant Sq., is 
descended from the congregation of the second Episcopal church 
erected in the city, which stood at Beekman and Cliff Sts., now the 
heart of the leather and hardware district. It is a very spacious and 
handsome building, and has an annex for the Sunday school, etc., 
built by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. 


St. Mark’s is another venerable church edifice, at Second Av. and 
roth St. (gth St. Station, Third Av. El. Ry.), which covers the site of 
a chapel built by Stuyvesant, the last of the Dutch governors, whose 
bones rest beneath its floor. The present is the second building, 
erected in 1826. Its outer(eastern) wall has a memorial to Stuyvesant. 

St. Thomas’ Church is at Fifth Av. and 53d St., and is perhaps 
the most fashionable of up-town houses of worship. Its paintings by 
Lafarge and its illuminated windows are justly admired. 


The Church of the Transfiguratzon in 29th St., just east of Fifth 
Av., is now known all over the country as ‘‘the (zttle church ’round 
the corner.” 'This name is said to have been derived from the refusal 
some years ago of a certain pastor in Madison Ay. to perform the 
burial service over the body of the aged actor, George Holland, bid- 
ding the emissary of his friends (who was Joseph Jefferson) go to 
‘ta little church ’round the corner,” where they might be accommo- 
dated. Since that time the players of the country have held this 
church and the late Dr. Houghton, its pastor, in veneration, and 
nearly all actors and actresses who die in New York are buried from 
it. A memorial window to Harry Montague is one of its features. 
It isa low, cruciform building, in Gothic style, shaded by trees; its 
walls are half covered with vines, it has a pretty lych-gate, and 
altogether is one of the most attr@ctive houses of worship in th> city. 

About eighty other churches an 1 chapels of this denomination exist 
within this city, nearly all of which are ‘‘ low church.” 


Presbyterianism is the method of one of the oldest and strongest 


CHURCHES AND BENEVOLENT WORK. 


sects in New York. The /7rs¢ Church, founded in 1716, stood orig- 
inally in Wall St., near Broadway, but now occupies the block on 
Fifth Av. between 11th and 12th Sts., with one of the most dignified 
edifices of its class in town. Nine pastors have succeeded one an- 
other there, the present being H. Duffield, D. D. The next oldest 
church is the Scotch (1756), now at 96th St. and Central Park, W. The 
Brick Church, whose tall spire crowns Murray Ilill, is next in age, 
put overreaches both in social prominence. Originally (1765) it stood 
on the triangle opposite the City Hall, now occupied by an _ office 
building. The former pastor was Dr. Henry Van Dyke. The 
Rutgers St. Church (now the Rutgers Riverszde) was organized in 
1798 down-town, and has finally moved to its present place at 73d St. 
and the Boulevard. 

The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian (pulpit of the late Dr. John Hall) 
is the most fashionable as well as the most popular of the churches 
of this denomination in New York, and is the successor of an old 
society organized in Cedar St. in 1808, which, after several removals, 
arrived at its present building at Fifth Av. and 55th St. This isa 
highly decorated specimen of Gothic architecture. The interior pre- 
sents as great a contrast to the conventional plain meeting-house of 
former days as can well be imagined, Neither carving nor color ha, 
been spared, and the effect produced is rather more that associated 
with a theater than with a church—an effect which the light wood 
used in the paneling and in the construction of the pews, and the 
gradual sloping of the floor from the entrance to the pulpit, help to 
bring out to its fullest extent. Dr. Hall came from Dublin, Ireland, 
in 1867, died in Ireland in 1898, and was buried there. 

The churches heretofore named are the original Presbyterian 
churches of the city, which number fifty-seven in all, not including 
several mission chapels. A few others of the more prominent should 
be mentioned. The Madison Sguare Church is that of which Dr. 
William Adams was so long the pastor, succeeded by the present in- 
cumbent, the Rey. Charles H. Parkhurst. The Fourth Avenue, at 
Fourth Av. and 22d St., became famous under the pastorate of the 
late Dr. Howard Crosby. The Madzson Avenue is under the care of 
the Rev. Walter D. Buchanan; the Church of the Covenant, long min- 
istered to by the Rev. Prof. Marvin R. Vincent, is now led by Dr. G. 
S. Webster; and the Phelps Church (formerly Fifteenth St.) at 
Madison Av. and 73d St., has as pastor Rev. E. C. Shaver. The head- 
quarters for the many Presbyterian societies for church work home 


124 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


missions, church erection, etc., are in the splendid stone office-building 
at Fifth Av. and 21st St., called Lenox Hall. 

Methodist Episcopal.—Methodism is an old institution in New 
York. The most ancient edifice is in Willet St., near Grand, but 
the John Street Church is entitled to foremost mention. This build- 
ing occupies the site of the first Methodist church in America, and is 
known as the cradle of American Methodism. The 4A/len St. Mem- 
ortal, Rivington St. east of Orchard, is the successor of the church in 
Allen St., so famous in the religious annals of the city as the center of 
aremarkable revival about 1830. The Washington Square Church, 
so called, occupies a marble building in 4th St., near Sixth Av. The 
Central Church(Seventh Av. near 14th St.) is the successor of that in 
Vestry St.,and S7¢. Pau?’s, now possessed of a fine edifice of marble, at 
Fourth Av. and 22d St., succeeds an old one in Mulberry St. The 
Eighteenth Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avs., is the ‘‘ Charter 
Church,” holding the original deeds, and its trustees are the legal 
successors of the first board. The Madison Avenue (at No. 659) has 
a fine brown-stone building recently erected; this is the church made 
famous by Dr. Newman, who numbered General Grant among his 
parishioners. The pulpit floor of another fashionable new M. E. 
Church, the Park Avenue, is made from timber from the original 
church in John St. 7Z7znzty (323 East 118th St.) has the largest mem- 
bership of any Methodist church in the city, and S¢. James in W. 
126th St., stands second in this respect. S¢. Andrews, on 76th St., 
between Ninth and Tenth Avs., is in a fashionable location, and is 
the finest house of worship of this denomination in town. A new 
and very artistic church is St. Paul’s, West End Av. and 86th St. 

The Baptist church in New York goes back to an early date in 
local history, when a congregation met on Golden Hill, at the head 
of Burling Slip, where they were in danger of mob violence on account 
of their Arminian doctrines, which were distasteful to the rest of the 
people. Gov. Stuyvesant, however, guaranteed them protection, and 
the sect has thriven since, and now numbers fifty-two churches and 
missions. The most noted of these are: The Fifth Avenue, at 
W. 46th St.; Wadison Avenue, at E. 31st St.; Epiphany, W. 83d St. 
and Broadway; Calvary, Sixth Av. and 57th St.; and the Abyssinian 
(colored), 166 Waverley Place. 

Congregationalism has not grown as much in old New York as in 
Brooklyn. The foremost church is the 7adernacle, at Broadway and 
56th St., of which the late Dr. W. M. Taylor was the pastor. The 


CHURCHES AND BENEVOLENT WORK. 125 


Central Church, at 57th St., between Eighth and Ninth Avs., and 
the Pilgrim Church, Madison Ay. and E£. 121st St., are most influen- 


tial societies. 


Of Unitarian churches New York nas three, two of which are 


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widely celebrated by reason of 
the eloquence of their pastors. 
All Souls is the oldest, and was 
made by the late Dr. Bellows 
the most prominent church of 
this denomination in the city, if 
not in the whole country. It 
stands at the corner of Fourth 
Av. and zoth St., and is very 
conspicuous through its red and 
white Byzantine style of archi- 
tecture.<=) LUC ™CLUTLA Of the 
Messiah, at 61 E. 34th St., cor- 
ner of Park Av., is now distin- 
guished by the oratory of the 
Rev. Robert Collyer, pastor 
emeritus, and is a handsome 
structure. In Harlem the Uni- 
tarians worship at Lenox Av. 


and 12ist St. 
The Lutheran denomination is 


as strong in New York as might 
be expected of its large German 
population. Its churches are 
mainly on the East Side and in 
Harlem, but are not confined to 
those quarters. Nearly the old- 
est, if not quite so, is SZ. Wat: 
thias, at the corner of Broome 
and Elizabeth Sts., where ser- 
vice is still held and a school 
maintained in one of the worst 


precincts in the city. S¢. Fames.in E. 73d St., is also prominent. 
Quakers, or Friends, have two meeting houses, one at 144 E. 2oth 
St., and another on Rutherford PIl., facing Stuyvesant Sq. A Mora- 
’ vian society worships at 154 Lexington Av., with a mission at 636 


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126 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


Sixth Av. Three Universalist churches may be found, viz.: Church 
of the Divine Paternity, 76th St. and Central Park, W., and the 
Church of the Eternal Hope, 142 W. 81st St. 

The Israelitish population of the city has been growing with great 
rapidity during the past decade, and their synagogues now number 
about fifty. Most of them are small edifices, in the narrow East 
Side streets; but many are scattered along the avenues, and beautify 
them by their oriental architecture. Such are Beth-E/, Fifth Av. 
and 76th St.; B’zadz Jeshurun, Madison Av., near 6sth St.; Hand zn 
Hand and Temple Israel, in Harlem; Shaaraz Tephila, Columbus 
Ay. and 82d St., and, most notable of all, Temple Emanu-£/, north- 
east corner of Fifth Av. and 43d St., which is the finest specimen of 
Moorish architecture in America, and one of the costliest religious 
structures in the city. It is built of brown and yellow sandstone, 
with the roof of alternate lines of red and black tiles. The center of 
the facade on Fifth Av., containing the main entrance, is flanked by 
two towers or rather minarets, both richly carved. The congrega- 
tion belongs to the reform wing, under the pastorate of the learned 
J. Silverman 

Some miscellaneous churches and missions should not be forgotten 
The Church of the Strangers, formerly at 299 Mercer St., where Dr. 
C. F. Deems was pastor, which appeals directly to readers of this book, 
has now been moved to No. 307 W. 57th St.; it still sustains important 
missions among the unfortunate. The Swedenborgzans worship at 
114 E. 35th St., and (in German) at 141 Chrystie. The MWarzner’s 
_ Church at 46 Catherine St. (near Chatham Sq.) is interesting, as are 
services at the Howard, Florence, Cremorne (104 W. 32d St.), and 
several other missions. 


Roman Catholic Churches. 


Roman Catholicism met with great prejudice and material 
obstacles when it first endeavored to gain a foothold in New York, 
and failed to do so until after the Revolution; but now it leads all 
other denominations in the number of its communicants drawn from 
every rank of society. 

The Cathedral is the first, of course, of the Catholic churches, and 
the great show church of the city; it is described at length farther on. 

About 100 other Roman Catholic churches are catalogued, of which 
only a few need be commented upon. The oldest, as has been said, 
is St. Peter’s (Barclay and Church Sts.). Next in order of age come 


THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL 
From the North, 5th Avenue, 50th and 51st Street 
127 


128 HANDY GOIDEVT O NIGH AVOKRSGL Inia 


the Old Cathedral (St. Patrick's church) at Mott and Prince Sts., 
now in the center of an Italian population ; it is underlaid by vaults 
(but burials have ceased), where Charles O’Connor, John Kelly, Judge 
Brady, and many prominent citizens and prelates of the last genera- 
tion are interred. Next oldest are S?. /ary’s (near Grand St. 
Ferry); St. Joseph's, St. James’, and St. Andrew's. Some notable 
churches are LAzphany (373 Second Av.), lately presided over by Dr. 
Burtsell ; Jimaculate Conception (505 E. 14th St.), where the Rev. 
John Edwards is pastor; St. Joseph’s (59 Sixth Av.), the parish of 
the late Father Farrell, celebrated as an anti-slavery preacher and 
writer before and during the Civil War. Churches distinguished by 
race are: Mount Carmel (447 E. 115th St.), Italian; Sz. Benedict 
the Moor (3 W. 53d St.), African; S¢. Vincent de Paul (127 W. 
23d St.), French; /mmaculate Conception (Morrisania), St. Joseph's 
(E. 87th St. near First Av.), St. Josefh’s (Ninth Av. and 125th St.), 
St. Mary Magdalen (17th St. and Av. B), German; and S¢. Stan- 
zslaus’ (43 Stanton St.), Polish, Vicar-General Mooney’s church, is 
that of the Sacred Heart (447 W. 51st St.); and Dr. Brann’s is S¢. 
Agnes (143 E. 43d St.). The Jesuits, besides the magnificent new 
church of S¢. Jgnatzus (84th St. and Park Av.), have an imposing 
church and college dedicated to St. -ranczs Xavzer in 16th St. near 
Sixth Av.; and the Dominican’s church is St. Vincent Ferrer, Lex- 
ington Av. and 66th St. A// Saznts, Madison Av., corner E. 129th 
St., is the most noted R. C. church in Harlem ; but the most fashion- 


able church of the city, next to the Cathedral, is probably SZ. 
Leo's, of which the late Kev. i hos. J}. Ducey was pastor, in E. 28th 
St., near Madison Av. 


THE CATHEDRAL, 


The Cathedral on Fifth Av., between soth and 51st Sts., should not 
be omitted from the list of places strangers ought to visit in New 
York. _ Its projector was the late Archbishop John Hughes, and the 
architect was James Renwick. All the designing and execution of 
the work, mechanical and artistic, was done in New York, except cer- 
tain adornments, hereafter mentioned. ‘The corner-stone was laid 
on August 15, 1858, in the presence of 100,000 persons, who had room 
to stand on the adjacent lots, then vacant. On May 25, 1879, the 
structure was dedicated by Cardinal McCloskey, who died in 1885. 

From an elaborate account written by the architect, we learn that 
this cathedral is an example cf the decorated and geometric style of 


CHURCHES AND BENEVOLENT WORK. 129 


Gothic architecture which prevailed in Europe from 1275 to 1400, and 
of which the cathedral of Cologne and the nave of Westminister are 
advanced exponents; and that although Europe can boast larger 
ones, for purity of style, originality of design, harmony of propor- 
tions, beauty of material, and finish of workmanship, New York 
Cathedral stands unsurpassed. 


From the original! architects’ drawing. Courtesy of Heins & La Parge. 
CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. 


The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral now being built on Morning 
Side Heights at 113th St. will be unsurpassed in grandeur by any in 
the world. Services are now held in the crypt. 


1380 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


Other Religious Organizations. 


A great number ot :nission- 
ary and religious societies, 
both non-sectarian and de- 
nominational, have their 
headquarters in this city. 
Some of these are national 
in character; others purely 
local. The great center of 
Protestant evangelical labor 
and influence of this kind is 
Bible House, an immense 
brick edifice, seven stories 
high and occupying a whole 
block, bounded by Fourth 
Av., 8th St., Third Av., and 
gth St. This building was 
erected in 1852 by the Ameri- 
can Bible Society, an organi- 
zation which began to print 
and diffuse the Scriptures in 
1816, and has since distrib- 
uted nearly 50,000,000 copies 
of the Bible, or important 
sections of it, in almost every 
; recognized tongue. Here are 
In the headquarters of the so- 
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION— ciety and a printing office, 
SR ALI bindery, etc., employing 500 

persons, where the Scriptures are printed in many languages. 


The Young Men’s Christian Association in New York is in a 
flourishing condition and owns a large building at 215 W. 23d St. 
The interior is divided into a reception-room, reading-room, parlors, 
lecture and concert hall (with a seating capacity of 1,400), lecture- 
rooms, class-rooms, library, gymnasium, bowling alley, and baths. 
On the top floor artists’ studios are rented. The building is ».pen 
to visitors all day, the library may be used by strangers, and reli- 
gious gatherings are held daily. The association sustains several 


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branches in Second Av. and other parts of the city, of which the 
most notable is the Railroad branch, which occupies a handsome 
building near the Grand Central Depot, given by Cornelius Vander- 
bilt. The Young Men's Institute at 222-4 Bowery and the West Side 
branch in W. 57th St. are worth a visit. 

The Young Women’s Christian Association occupies a beautiful 
home at No. 7 E. 15th St., and devotes itself to helping in every way 
the young working women of the city. It hasa library and many 
other features which will make it an interesting object to ladies visit- 
ing the city, who can obtain lodgings and restaurant meals here. 

The Salvation Army has its American headquarters in a tall 
building erected in 1894 at 120 W. 14th St. It has other halls or 
stations for meetings, residence, etc., at 27th St. and Third Av.; 
Lexington Av. and 125th St.; 323 Bleecker St., etc. 

The American Volunteers, who seceded from the Salvation Army 
in 1895, have their headquarters, under Ballingion i300th, at 38 
Cooper Square, where their CazeZée is published. 

Other religious institutions having houses in New York include the 
following: 


The Christian Alliance and International Missionary Alliance, 
690 Eighth Av., carries on evangelical work all over the world. Zhe 
International Order of King’s Daughters and Sons, an unsectarian 
‘‘religious order of service,” has its Central Council at 156 Fifth Av. 
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew (Protestant Episcopal) has an office 
at 281 Fourth Av. The White Cross Society is at 224 Waverley PI. 
The Door of Hope, for the regeneration of fallen women, has its 
central home at 271 W. 47th St. 


Hospitals and Charities. 


Hospitals and Public Charities.—New York is justly proud of its 
hospitals, and any stranger suffering illness or accident in the city 
ought at once to place himself in one of them rather than remain at a 
hotel or boarding-house. 

Bellevue.—This is the most widely known hospital in America. It 
stands at the foot of E. 26th St., and is a ‘‘ long, grayish, four-story, 
prison-like structure, situated in a block which extends to the East 
River, and is inclosed by a high, forbidding stone wall. It was 
established in 1826, and is under control of the Department of 
Charities which is permitted to expend upon it about $100,000 a year 
For many years it has been famous for the high medical and surgical 
skill of which it is the theater, its faculty embracing many leading 


132 HANDY, GUIDE \TOVNEWBYOREVCAEY: 


members of the profession in the city.” Admission of patients 
(between Io a. m. and 3 p. m.), is procurable upon the recommenda- 
tion of a physician, but contagious diseases are refused; accidents 
and sudden illness, at any time of day or night. Hours for visitors, 
from I1a.m to3p.m. Within the grounds is the Bellevue Hos- 
pital Medical College, founded in 1861; it has taken a high rank, 
and has now about 500 students. 

The Morgue is another object of gruesome interest at Believue. 
It is a small, one-story building. In an inner room, protected py a 
partition of glass, the unknown and unclaimed dead lie outstretched, 
almost nude, upon marble slabs, and under the drip of icy water. ” 

.Near Believve is the Emergency Hospital, 223 E. 26th St., for the 
relief of persons taken suddenly ill, and women on their way to 
Maternity Hospital. Other emergency hospitals are Gouverneur, 
in Gouverneur Slip; the Fordham Reception Hospital, 2456 Valen- 
tine Av., and the House of Relief, 67 Hudson St. 

The New York Hospital is next in popularity, and the oldest in 
‘he city. The office and residence is at No. 8 W: 16th St. But in 
1877 there was opened in the rear of this office, a magnificent struc- 
ture facing W. 15th St. (near Fifth Av.), having every modern 
device for health and comfort. This hospital also maintains a branch 
‘‘house of relief,” for cases of accident or sudden illness, at 67 Hud- 
son St. ‘This branch, as well as the main establishment, has ambu- 
lances, and gives free treatment in emergency cases. 

Other Hospitals.— Roosevelt, at 59th St. and Ninth Av., is con- 
structed on the pavilion plan, and is of great size and excellence. 
St. Luke's Hospital, on Morningside Heights, is under the care of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church, but makes no distinction as to 
its patients. Another great semi-denominational hospital is the 
Presbytertan, Madison Av. and 7oth St., where nine-tenths of the 
patients pay no money. Several hospitals and dispensaries are 
under Roman Catholic auspices, such as S¢. Vincent's, 149 W. 31th 
St. (visitors, Tuesdays and Fridays, 3 to 5 p. M.); S¢. Franczs’, 605 
5th St., with SZ. Joseph’s, a branch of the same, 143d St. and Brook 
Av.; and S¢. Elizabeth's, 415 W. 51st St. No distinction as to religion 
or race is made between applicantsin any of these institutions. Sev- 
eral hospitals are intended especially for women and children, the 
largest of which is the Woman’s Hospitalof the State of New York, 
which receives many paying patients from other States. 


CHURCHES AND BENEVOLENT WORK. 133 


fhe institutions over which the Departments of Charities and Cor- 
rection have control are on islands in the East River, whose large 
buildings are so conspicuous in passing up or down that river in a 
stéamboat. The most important and most southern of the group is 
Blackwell's Island, the lower end of which is opposite soth St. 
Upon it are the great penitentiary, to which go offenders convicted 
in the police courts and reported as ‘‘ sent to the island;” also the 
almshouse, workhouse, several asylums, special hospitals, and the 
great Charity Hospital. 

Ward’s Island, next above, contains the insane asylum and some 
other buildings, and the institutions for the care of sick or incapable 
immigrants. 

Randall’s Island, north of Ward’s and at the mouth of Harlem 
River, contains the idiot asylum and several hospitals and schools 
for children. On Har?’s /sland is another insane asylum; and on 
North Brother Island the hospitals for contagious diseases. 

Private Philanthropies.—The Chardty Organtzation Soctety, 
composed of the representatives of many of the charitable associa- 
tions in the city, exercises a general watchfulness over philanthropic 
labors in New York, and enables efforts toward doing good and sup- 
pressing evil to gain the strength of united and organized direction. 
The State Charities Atd Assoctation supervises philanthropic work 
throughout the whole State, and promotes reforms by legislative 
means and otherwise. In New York County there are committees to 
visit the various departments of Bellevue and other hospitals and the 
institutions for the poor and insane on Ward’s, Blackwell’s, Randall’s, 
and Hart’s islands. Another committee is the managing board of 
the Training School for Nurses; and it is a branch of this association 
which kas placed the big boxes seen in ferry houses and depots for 
the reception of the newspapers, books, and magazines which you 
have finished reading. ‘The publications collected every day are 
distributed not only to hospitals and other institutions, but also to 
lighthouses and lonely life-saving stations. These two supervisory 
societies work cordially together and do immense service; and the 
office of both is in the magnificent building on the corner of Fourth 
Avy. and 22d St., erected by John S. Kennedy in 1893 asa Soteaaue 
ters for benevolent societies and agencies. 

Of the private institutions for general assistance to the poor, none 
are more widely known than the /zve Poinis House of Industry 
and the /zve Points Mission, which stand across the street from 


134 HANDY\GUIDE. TO NEW YORK. CITY, 


each other at the Five Points, whichis only a short walk from Broad- 
way, through Worth St. Both were established about 1850, when 
that locality was the most vicious in the city. Now it is safe, quiet, 
and reasonably clean; and these missions, more than anything else, 
are entitled to credit for the change. Both of them assist the desti- 
tute of all classes, and find enough to occupy them within a very few 
blocks. They support missionaries among the tenement-house 
people, provide food, clothing, and necessaries for applicants thought 
worthy; maintain large schools, and provide for the health, educa- 
tion, ete., of great numbers of poor and neglected children, hundreds 
of whom are sent annually to homes in the interior of the country. 
The mission is now enjoying a new and much enlarged building. 
[he Association for Improving the Condttion of the Poor (105 
E. 22d St.), assists 20,000 or more carefully investigated cases 
annually. Zhe Hebrew Society for the Improvement of the Santz- 
tary Condition of the Poor (356 Second Av.) is another noteworthy 
agency in ameliorating the suffering in over-crowded tenements. 

The long list of special asylums and societies for the benefit of 
special classes of unfortunates, as the blind, deaf-mutes, orphans, 
etc., can not be given here. Lists of them can be found in the City 
Directory, or in the. special Directory of the Charity Org. Society. 
A few words should be spared, however, in reference to the group of 

Humane Societies. — Of these the most widely known is the Soczety 
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, founded by the late 
Henry Bergh, for it has branches in all principal cities in the United 
States and Canada. Its headquarters are now in a handsome stone 
edifice at the corner of Madison Av. and 26th St., where Oz 
Animal Friends is also published. There is an agency in Brooklyn. 
The object of the society is the enforcement of the laws relating 
to the protection of and to prevent cruelty to animals in all 
parts of the United States. It has a staff of officers, uniformed much 
like policemen, who patrol the streets and have power to make arrests, 
and whose badge is a large silver shield stamped with the seal and 
name of the society. It also maintains a number of ambulances in 
which disabled horses are removed from any place where they may 
fall to a place where they may be cured. 

The Soczety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is a 
powerful organization now housed in the splendid new building lately 
erected for it at 23d St. and Fourth Av. by Elbridge T. Gerry, its 
president. Its object is the enforcement of laws relating to children, 


CHURCHES AND BENEVOLENT WORK. 135 


their protection against and rescue from oppression and evil influ- 
ences, and their help when in need. 

The Soczety for the Suppression of Vice is managed by Mr. 
Anthony Comstock, and directs its attention mainly to the detection 
and seizure of obscene literature and the punishment of offenders 
under the laws against gambling; office, 140 Nassau St. The Soczety 
for the Prevention of Crime is presided over by the Rev. Dr. 
Parkhurst and has a very similar scope; office, 105 E. 22d St. Other 
important philanthropic associations are: Actors’ Fund, 112 W. 42d 
St.; Baptist Home Mission, 116 E. 68th St.; Female Guardian Society 
and Home for the Friendless, 29 E. 29th St.; Kindergarten Society, 70 
Fifth Av.; Sabbath Union, 203 Broadway; Seamen’s Friend Society, 
76 Wall St., Sunday School Committee, 416 Lafayette Pl.; Association 


for Befriending Women and Young Girls, 136 Second Av.; Association 
Fraterna Italiana, 64S.Washington Sq.; Bowery Mission, 55 Bowery; 


Catholic Sailors’ Friends, 178 Christopher St.; Cercle Francais 
L’Amitie, 440 Sixth Av.; Children’s Aid Society, 105 E. 22d St.; City 
Vigilance League, 105 E. 22d St.; Civil Service Reform Association, 
79 Wall St.; College Settlement Association, 95 Rivington St.; 
Consumers’ League, 105 E. 22d St.; Lutheran Emigrant Mission, 
8 State St.; Evangelical Alliance, 105 E. 22d St.; German Missions, 
6 and 27 State St.; Irish Emigrant Society, 29 Reade St.; Jewisa 
Immigrants Protective Society, 210 E. 118th St.; Ladies’ Health Pro- 
tective Association, 105 E. 22d St.; Legal Aid Society, 239 Broadway; 
Working Girls’ Vacation Society, 105 E. 22d St.; Penny Provident 
Fund, ror E. 22d St.; Provident Loan Society, 279 Fourth Av.; 
Typothete, 32 Union Square, East; United Hebrew Charities, 356 
Second Av.; Working Women’s Protective Union, 312 W. 54th St. 


OS. 
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, 
LIBRARIES, ETC. 


Public Schools. 


The public school system of the city consists of graded schools, 
evening schools, corporate schools (industrial schools, reformatories, 
orphan asylums, etc.), the nautical school on the S¢. WZary, the 
Normal College and the College of the City of New York, and 
several high schools, notably that for boys at 60 West 13th St. The 
total now exceeds 4oo schools, and it is constantly being amplified, 
yet loud complaints are heard of the inadequacy of the accommoda- 
tions. ‘The whole system is under control of the Board of Education, 
at 490 Park Av. It comprises every phase of school life, from the 
kindergarten and truant schools to the College of the City of New 
York and the Normal College for training teachers, and has to 
provide for not less than half a million ordinary pupils, daily, as well 
as for the necessary instructors and buildings. 

The attendance at school of children between the ages of 8 and 12 
years is compulsory for the entire school year; that of children be- 
tween 12 and 16 for only a part of the year, if otherwise employed 
and wage-earners. Free evening and vacation schools are also sus- 
tained by the city. The school buildings are distributed all over 
town, and many of them will seem very dreary abodes to visiting 
teachers, but the situation is a necessity of city-crowding. Such 
persons will find schools which in appearance, equipment, discipline, 
and thoroughness will well repay a visit, at 104th St. and Amsterdam 
Av., and at 134th St. and Lenox Av. 

The College of the City of New York is open free to all young 
men residing in this city, and prepared at the city schools, and it 
offers both a literary-classical and a scientific course, each four years 
inlength. There is also a mechanical course of instruction, anda 
post-graduate course in engineering. The total number of students 

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approaches 3,000, only one-third of whom are engaged in classical 
studies. This college occupies a series of large, turreted buildings 
at 140th St. and Amsterdam Av., which contain a cabinet of natural 
history, a library of 25,000 volumes, and much laboratory apparatus. 


The Normal College, for young women, is a free institution 
sustained by the city, corresponding with the last mentioned, and 
intended especially for training girls to serve as teachers. It has 
an immense monastic-looking building in 69th St., betwween Fourth 
and Lexington Avs., which cost $500,000. Most of its graduates 
enter the service of the city as teachers. The curriculum includes 
Latin, physics and chemistry, German, natural science, French, 
drawing, music, etc. Some years ago a five years’ classical course 
was inaugurated, which entitles students at graduation to the degree 
of A. B. A model or training school is erected in the rear, in which 
pupil-teachers have an opportunity to supplement their theoretic 
studies with the practical. The morning exercises in the chapel at 
9 o’clock are open to the public. Take Fifth Av. stages or Fourth 
or Lexington Av. electric-cars to 69th St., or the Third Av. El. Ry. 
to 67th St. 

All of the above mentioned schools and institutions are free, and 
are under control of the Board of Education. 


Columbia University. 


Columbia University is the foremost institution of higher learning 
in New York, and one of the foremost inthe United States. It began 
in 1754, as King’s College, undera charter from the English crown and 
‘+ aid of money raised mainly in England, The Trinity Church 
corporation took an interest in it from the start, and presently made 
it a grant of land between what is now College Place and North 
River, from the sale or rental of which a large part of the Univer- 
sity’s income has since been derived. During the Revolution its ses- 
sions were interrupted and its buildings appropriated to the use of 
the troops. After that war the Legislature of the State made a grant 
of land and reincorporated it as Columbia College, under a board of 
regents, afterward changed to twenty-four self-perpetuating trustees. 
The institution erected buildings on College Place and occupied 
them until 1857, when the College was moved to its third home 
between goth and soth Sts., east of Madison Ay. This was outgrown 
in a generation or so, and, in 1897, was abandoned for what is con- 


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sidered a permanent home on Morningside Heights. The grounds 
now cover nearly eighteen acres between the Boulevard and Amster- 
dam Avenue, from 116th to 120th St.; it was formerly occupied by 
the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, and cost $2,000,000. ‘The build- 
ings occupy a high, leveled site, facing southerly, and ultimately will 
form a quadrangle, nearly surrounding the Library. Only a few now 
exist. The Zzbrary, whose great gray dome is a stately feature in 
the landscape, was erected at the cost (about $1,000,000) of Seth Low, 
President of the University 1890-1902, as a memorial to his father, 
the late A. A. Low of this city. It is a cruciform building, having 
an Ionic colonnade in front and a noble entry between pillars of dark, 
polished Irish marble. The interior is a rotunda open to the dome, 
which will be used as a reading room, while the surrounding parts of 
the building are devoted to the books, and to various other purposes, 
including, at present, many recitation-rooms. ‘The sixteen pillars of 
the rotunda are of Vermont syenite, with gilded Ionic capitals. In 
the rear of this building is the beginning of University Hall, the base- 
ment stories only of which are finished. These contain the power- 
house, a tier of business offices, and the extensive and highly modern 
gymnasium and athletic appliances. A noble superstructure is to be 
erected here, containing various offices and halls, and the academic 
theater, occupying the semicircular, apse-like rear part. Four lab- 
oratory buildings are now completed and in service. Schermerhorn 
Hall, next east of University Hall, is devoted to biological sciences. 
and contains, besides laboratories and lecture-rooms, an interest- 
ing museum of natural history, open to the public. Beside it are 
the Physics Building, Earl, South, and Fayerweather Halls, 
Havemeyer Hall, devoted to chemistry, and the Engineering Building, 
containing the machinery needed in practical instruction. The outer 
(Boulevard) front of the latter building bears a spirited bronze 
memorial tablet, modeled by James ©. Kelly, to Knowlton and the 
Battle of Harlem Heights, which was iought about here Sept. 16, 1776. 

The five ‘‘ colleges” or departments of the University now estab- 
lished are: 1. Arts. 2. Science. 3. Law. 4. Political Science. 5. 
Medicine. 7he College of Arts is the oldest and central department, 
and embraces the classical and literary curriculum usual in a collegi- 
ate course of four years. The Department of Science now embraces 
all that used to constitute the almost separate ‘‘ School of Mines,” 
long famous in the history of Columbia, and so much of the ether 
courses as touch its province. A four years’ course will give degrees 


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of Mining Engineer, Civil Engineer, Metallurgical Engineer, and 
Bachelor of Philosophy. For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 
there is a post-graduate course of two years. Zhe Law School has 
quarters in the Library, and a large attendance; its course is two 
years. The Department of Polttical Science offers a three-years’ 
course in the broadest scope of political economy, conferring the 
degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Zhe Department of Medicine is 
better known as ‘‘ The College of Physicians and Surgeons.” It 
occupies extensive buildings on 6oth St., between Ninth and Tenth 
Avs., close to Roosevelt Hospital, in which (and in other hospitals) 
much of the instruction is given. ‘These buildings, and the affiliated 
Maternity Hospital, near by, are due to the gifts of various members 
of the Vanderbilt family; while Edwin Gould, of the class of ’88, has 
erected for the University a fine boat-house at the foot of West 115th 
St. (North River), The University now has some 60 members of the 
faculty and nearly 2,000 students. 

The Barnard Annex is the name of a course of study for women, 
parallel with that of undergraduates in the School of Arts, for which 
a fine building has been prepared at the Boulevard and 120th St. Its 
~vraduates receive diplomas equivalent to University degrees. 

The Teacher’s College and Horace Mann School is a large insti- 
tution on the north side of 120th St., for instruction with special 
reference to preparation for teaching; and it is Bed affiliated with 
Columbia. 


University of the City of New York. 


This institution is stronger than its comparatively narrow reputa- 
tion would lead an outsider to suppose. Its lack of recognition in 
the past is largely due to the fact that its quarters have been scat 
tered, so that it has made little visible impression by means of 
imposing halls and a broad campus, as is the wont of colleges. Its 
original and main building was the castellated and historic structure 
which had stood for sixty yea. at the northeastern corner of Wash- 
ington Square; but that was demolished in 1894, and is now replaced 
oy a tall, modern structure, whose top floors only will be occupied by 
the University. Here have been fixed the offices of the administra- 
tion, the Law School (hitherto one of the strong points), and the 
School of Pedagogy. 

The various undergraduate schools and departments of Arts and 
Sczences which form the nucleus of the institution, however. are 


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quartered in a series of new buildings, recently completed, upon 
an extensive scale, within an elevated park-like inclosure on the east 
bank of the Harlem River, near Kingsbridge, which include a Ha// 
of Fame, 500 feet long, built about the Library, containing 150 panels 
in which ultimately will be fixed bronze tablets, commemorating great 
and famous Americans. It was the gift of Miss Helen Gould. | 

The Union Theological Seminary, now in academic relation to 
the University, occupies a building at Fourth Avy. and 69th St. This 
widely known school was founded in 1836, and is the principal place 
of training for ministers of the Presbyterian church, but its students 
may come from any evangelical denomination, so long as they can 
show a certificate of good church standing. ‘The library is founded 
upon a gift of 13,000 volumes by L. Van Ess, and now contains about 
60,000 books and nearly 50,000 pamphlets and manuscripts. As 
would be expected it is very rich in rare and ancient theological 
books and MSS., specimens of early Bibles, first printings, and rare 
tracts. 

The Faculty of Medicine occupies spacious buildings at the foot 
of E. 26th St., and contiguous to Bellevue Hospital (which see). 
These buildings (whose two amphitheaters, together, will seat 1,000 
pupils) are modern and admirably adapted to their purposes. At- 
tached is the Loomis Laboratory, the cost of which ($100,000) was 
defrayed by an unknown friend on condition that his name be kept 
secret, and the laboratory be directed and named after Dr. Alfred 
Loomis. Much of the instruction is given in the wards and lecture 
rooms of Bellevue, and it is consequently of a very practical character. 


Miscellaneous Institutions. 


The Cooper Union, or Institute, is an enormous building at the 
head of the Bowery, where Fourth Av. branches off to the left and 
Third Ay. to the right. It was erected by the late Peter Cooper in 
1857, at a cost of $630,000, and endowed with $300,000 for the support 
of che free reading-room and library. The purpose is philanthropic, 
andembraces day and evening schools of various kinds. Besides those 
which have a regular academic course, there are art schools for men 
and wonien, free school of telegraphy and of type-writing for women, 
and other special departments. As the thousands of pupils who 
attend these classes are drawn almost entirely from the people who 
must work, all of the instruction tends to the practical. (See p. 187.) 

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Roman Catholic Institutions.—Of these the leading collegeis St. 
Francis Xavier’s, whose beautiful new building next to St. F. Xavier’s 
Church, in West 16th St., near Sixth Av., is one of the architectural 
ornaments of the city. This is a day college, in charge of the Jesuit 
Fathers, and numbers about 450 students, who come daily from their 
homes to the class-rooms. Ithasareference library of 20,000 volumes 
andasmall circulating library. Another able institution under charge 
of the same pedagogical order is St. John’s College, at Fordham, a 
station on the Harlem R. R., at the extreme northeastern edge of the 
city, where the spacious and beautiful grounds of Rose Hill surround 
the school. Manhattan College is a third strong R. C. school, situated 
in Manhattanville and reached by the cars. The great Academy of 
the Sacred Heart, one of the oldest and best known Catholic schools 
for girls, is also in Manhattanville; and another noted convent school 
is that of Mt. St. Vincent, on the Hudson River, above Riverdale. 


Libraries and Reading-Rooms. 


The New York Public Library—Astor, Lenox and Tilden Founda- 
tions—a title that perpetuates the names of the public spirited 
citizens to whose gifts of money, books, manuscripts and objects of 
art, the people of the city are indebted for this institution, that ex- 
tends on the west side of Fifth Avenue from 4oth Street to 42nd Street. 
The building was erected by the city on land owned by the latter, 
but all its running expenses of whatever kind, including its pur- 
chases of books, are met by funds derived from the original endow- 
ments. Of the forty branch libraries situated in the Boroughs of 
Manhattan and the Bronx and Staten Island, thirty-two—those mark- 
ed thus * in our list—were erected by Andrew Carnegie, on sites 
provided by the municipality, which also supplies the books and bears 
the costs of their administration as in the case of the other branches. 
These branches are all circulating libraries and admission to them, 
as to the main library whence they are governed, is freeof charge to 
visitors and residents alike and the former have all the privileges of 
the latter except that they are not permitted to take books out of 
the buildings. 

In the building we illustrate, there are more than 800,000 volumes 
and the pamphlets exceed 300,000 The main stack has a capacity 
for 2,700,000 books, while that of the other rooms brings the total 
book capacity of the building to 3,500,000 volumes. There are over 
810,000 now in the circulation branches. The total expenditures for 
the administration of the entire system and for purchasing books in 
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In the aumber of rare editions and prints it contains, the wealth 
of manuscripts, illuminated works on vellum, quaint and costly 
bindings, the beautiful central library is a veritable treasure house. 
The paper of the centuries—old volumes—is seemingly as strong and 
the ink as black as if they had come from the hands of the press- 
man and the binder but yesterday. These, many of them literally 
priceless, are exhibited in glass cases. Sculptures, paintings, cera- 
mics, all appropriate and bearing an intimate relation to the library 
claim and well repay the visitor’s attention. Here too, in this build- 
ing, is a room devoted to the blind, many of whom come unaccom- 
panied. Five thousand volumes and over 3,000 pieces of music, to 
say nothing of magazines representing the modern languages, with 
one work in Esperanto, constitute this library for the blind. 

In the basement are the lighting, heating, power and ventilating 
plants, as well as the printing office and the bindery. The library 
is open from g A. M. daily, except on Sundays, when the hours are 
from 1 P. M.to1o P. M. The branch libraries, except those in the 
distinctively Hebrew neighborhoods of the East Side, close on Sun- 
days. The Carnegie branches are open even on legal holidays and 
the hours generally are from 9 A. M. tog P. M. 

The Fifth Avenue building is 390 feet in length and has an extreme 
depth of 270 feet. The main reading room seats 768 comfortably. 
Other reading rooms are devoted exclusively to students and scholars. 
For admission to these, special tickets are required. Then there is 
a children’s room—a feature, also, of most of the branch libraries— 
with furniture, as well as books, adapted to the little folk; a periodi- 
cal room and a newspaper room with files of the leading newspapers 
of the various countries. If you think that politicians and editors 
were more polite to one another in ‘‘the good old days,’’ say one hun- 
dred years, than they are now, consult the ‘‘New York “vening Fost,”’ 
of that remote period. Fill your application blank, avery simple pro- 
ceeding, and an attendant will presently hand you a formidable 
volume of warm reading, the leading daily of New York, when the 
town had less than 100,000 population. 

For delvers into Oriental literature, American history, Sociol- 
ogy and economics, mathematics and the physical and chemical 
sciences, and for Slavonic, Jewish lore, there are special study rooms 
for individual use. Picture galleries, the art room and the depart- 
ment of prints occupy the east front of the upper floor, while the 
administrative offices are in the south side of the building. 

Visitors are most courteously received and intelligent and well- 
informed guides direct them to various departments in the building. 
They are required upon entering to surrender any packages they 
may have. ‘These are returned to them, when they present checks 
for the same, on their departure. Two commodious elevators 
obviate stair climbing. In the matter of light, heat and ventilation, 
New York’s great library leaves nothing to be desired. Designed 
throughout by Messrs. Carrere & Hastings, they succeeded beyond 
measure in combining practical utility with architectural excellence. 


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The Board of Trustees is composed of ‘‘men of light and lead- 
ing’ in the community, and the Mayor, the Comptroller and the 
President of the Board of Aldermen are, by virtue of their offices, 
members. John S. Billings, D.C.L., L.L.D., long and promin- 
ently identified with the New York Public Library, is the very 
efficient Director. 

The collection of early printed volumes is, its character con- 
sidered, very large. There are not less than six hundred examples 
and of these, fifteen are known as block books, representing the 
slow and laborious method of carving the individual fixed letters 
which antedated the use of movable type. In some exceptional 
instances manuscript and printing arecombined. Thereis a Guten- 
berg bible in fine condition and ten specimens from the press of 
Caxton, the father of printing in England. Here too, may be seen 
the Bag Psalm Book, the first book produced in the English Colonies. 
The Spaniards are credited with forty volumes printed in Mexico 
and South America prior to 1600. 

The mss. are, perhaps, not less interesting. The student has at 
hand original sources of information especially upon English and 
Continental politics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. If 
you would feast your eyes upon the autographs and photographs of 
the great and the distinguished, a banquet awaits you. Here, in 
this department, as in all others that are in the ordinary sense his- 
torical, the library is rich in Americana. 

In many of the branch libraries on certain evenings, except in 
summer, illustrated lectures are given on the arts, sciences and his- 
tory and the subjects range all the way from music to metallurgy. 
The basements, commodious and well-ventilated apartments, are 
used for the purpose. 


Circulating Department. This includes twenty-eight branches for 
the free circulation of books, besides a: department of traveling 
libraries, having altogether on their shelves about half a million 
volumes and circulating them at the rate of about four million a 
year. The names and locations of the branches are as follows: > 


Arranged in order of location from South to North. 
*Hast Broadway, 337 (Chatham Sq. Branch). 

East Broadway, 197 (East Broadway Branch). 
Eldridge St., 184 (University Settlement). 

Bond St., 49 (Bond St. Branch). 

*roth St., 331 Last (Tompkins Sq. Branch). 
Second Av., 1375 (Ottendorfer Branch), 

13th St., 251 West (Jackson Sq. Branch). 

22d St., 230 Last (Epiphany Branch), 


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23a St., 209 West (Muhlenberg Branch). 

70th St., 3037 East (St. Gabriel’s Park). 

goth St., 501 West (St. Raphael Branch). 

42a St., 226 West (George Bruce Branch). 

soth St., 123 Last (Cathedral Branch). 

jist St., 4637 West (Sacred Heart Branch), 

*o8th St., 121 East (58th St. Branch). 

*O71h Si, gee aust (O7ihe ot (pranch), 

* Amsterdam Av. 190 (Riverside Branch). 

*4Av. A, 1465 (Webster Branch). 

*70th St., 222 East (Yorkville Branch). 

*Amsterdam Av., 444 (St. Agnes Branch). 

Amsterdam Av., 536 (Corner 86th St). 

(g6th St. Branch). 

*96th St., 172 East(Bloomingdale Branch). 

1ioth St., 774 East (Aguilar Branch). 

123d St., 32 West (The Harlem Library). 

“725th St, 227 Last (725thieou branch). 

795th 5t., 107 West {i35thiot, pranen), 

145th St., 503 West (Hamilton Grange Branch). 

St. Nicholas Av., 922 (Washington Heights Branch), 

* Tottenville, Borough of Richmond (Tottenville Branch). 

Library for the Blind, 444 Amsterdam Av. 

Traveling Libraries, 190 Amsterdam Av.; basement entrance. 

Office of the Department, 226 West 42d St. Telephone, 3934 
38th St. 

Hours: The branches, with the exceptions noted below, are open 
from g A. M. tog P. M. on week days. 

Branches in Carnegie buildings (marked thus with an *) are open 
full hours on all legal holidays. 

The other branches are closed during the entire day on New Year’s 
Day, Decoration Day, the Fourth of July, Presidential Election 
Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day; after 6 Pp. M. on 
Washington’s Birthday and Christmas Eve; and on Election Day 
(when not Presidential) after 5 P. M. 

The Library for the Blind is open week days from 1 P. M. to 4 P. M. 

The East Broadway Branch is closed from 5 p. mM. on Fridays till 
6 p. M. on Saturdays and is open on Sundays. 

The branch in the University Settlement Building is open from 
1.30 to 5.30 and 7.30 to 9.30 P. M. 

The Epiphany Branch is open from 2.30 to g P. M. 


* Occupying Carnegie buildings. 


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Most of these branches were acquired by consolidation. The New 
York Free Circulating Library (consolidated in 1901) furnished 
eleven, the Aguilar (1903) four, the Cathedral (1905) five, and other 
smaller institutions one each. In 1901 Andrew Carnegie gave the city 
of New York $5,200,000 for the erection of branch libraries. Of 
these, fifty are to be erected by the New York Public Library, all in 
the three boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Richmond. Up 
to March 1, 1905, seven had been built and opened—namely, those 
starred in the foregoing list—while about ten others were in course 
of construction and about twenty-five sites had been secured, By 
the condition of the gift, the city furnishes sites and agrees to main- 
tain the libraries, which are constructed and administered by the 
Public Library. Each of the Carnegie buildings contains a large 
adults’ circulating room, circulating and reading-room for children 
and a public newspaper and periodical reading-room, 


The office of the circulating department, pending the completion 
of the Central Library, is at 226 West 42d St. The chief of the 
department is Arthur E. Bostwick, Ph. D. 


(The Cooper Union Library and Reading Room (three minutes’ 
walk from the Astor Library) forms one of the strongest features of 
that great institution (g. v.), and one which Mr. Cooper felt to be so 
important that he endowed it with a fund of $300,000. It occupies an 
immense room on the third floor, the walls of which are lined with 
shelves of books, each in a jacket of strong paper. Long tables are 
supplied for readers of books and magazines, which are given out from 
a desk, on deposit of the metal check which every one who enters must 
accept and must return when heleavestheroom. The library contains 
about 20,000 volumes, principally practical and instructive; and is 
noted as the possessor of a complete set of both the old and new 
series of Patent Office reports, which are consulted yearly by almost 
2,000 persons. Each volume has been carefully indexed, making 
them invaluable for reference. The library is open in the evening 
and then is crowded by a class of readers who have no time during 
the day to spend in gathering information or in taking intellectual 
amusement. More interesting to the stranger, however, will be the 
sizht of the lony tables and racks filled with newspapers and period- 
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dressed, often dirty, but all orderly, quiet, and eager to read. This 
is one of the sights of the city, and the visitor will easily accept the 
statement that between 450 and 460 newspapers and periodicals are 
taken in here, 


Few of the other libraries in the city will repay a visit by the 
casual observer. The Apprentices’, 18 W. 16th St., has nearly 
100,000 volumes, which were formerly circulated among the public, 
but are now used only by members. 


The Mercantile Library occupies rooms in its new building at 
Lafayette Place and 8th St., and owns over 200,000 volumes of 
general interest, new books being added as fast as issued. The 
ordinary fee is $5 annually, or $3 for six months. ‘The public are 
admitted only to the outer office, which contains nothing to interest 
the sight-seer. Other libraries which might be added to this list 
would interest specialists only and need not be expatiated upon in 
this book, except to say that a /aw /zbrary is open to public inspec- 
tion in Rooms 116-122, Post-office Building. Besides more than 
30,000 legal works, this library contains portraits of Thomas Addis 
Emmet, Chancellor Kent, and Judge Greene C. Bronson, and busts 
of James T. Brady and John Anthon. Among the books are many 
very rare copies of law reports, a few books belonging to Alex- 
ander Hamilton and containing numerous entries in his handwriting, 
a note-book of Lord Hardwicke, and the cases and opinions of 
Charles O’Conor, 


The Society Library, University Place and 12th St., is another 
large private circulating library, very rich in books of art, history, 
genealogy, and similar lines, and containing some notable portraits 
and historical mementos. 


A full list of 300 or more libraries in the City of New York will be 
found in a manual published by the New York Library Club. 


Art Galleries. 


Fine arts have made a very notable advance in New York during 
the last few years, not only in the direction of exhibition and gen- 
real popularity, but toward a higher standard of work and more 
thorough methods of teaching. ‘The one really great public gallery 
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described in the general account of that institution (pp. 52-54). 
The Lenox Library has a small gallery of fine pictures open daily; 
and the New York Historical Society, Second Av. and 11th St., pos- 
sesses many portraits, examples of the Dutch masters, and pieces of 
statuary, to which visitors are admitted by card from a member of 
the society. | 

The principal gath- 
ering place of art in 
the metropolis is The 
American Fine Art 
Society, 57th St. be- 
tween Seventh Av. 
and Broadway. Inits 
galleries are located 
The National Society 
of Mural Painters, 
The New York Chap- 
ter of the American 
Institute of Archi 
tects, The Society of 
American Artists, 
The National Sculp- 
ture Society, The 
American Fine Art 
Society, The Fine 
Arts Federation of 
New York, The New 
York Water Color 
Club, The New York 
Academy of Design, 
The Society of 
Beaux Arts Archi- 
tects, and The Art 
Students’ League. 

The Academy holds an exhibition of new paintings in the early 
spring of each year, and several prizes, ranging from $100 to $300 are 
distributed. During the first two days of the exhibitions, which are 
known as ‘“‘ varnishing day,” and ‘‘ private view” or ‘‘ buyers’ day,” 
admission can only be obtained by a card of invitation from the sec- 


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retary, and these are eagerly sought for. During the succeeding 
weeks the gallery is open to the public from g a. m. until 10 p. m. 
upon payment of an admission fee of 25 cts. There is also an exhi- 
bition in the fall, where work less ambitious, but often none the less 
interesting, is shown to the public. 

The Water Color Society is closely allied to the Academy of 
Design. It has norooms, the secretary’s address is Fine Art Society, 
215 W.57th St., N. Y. The object of this society is the advancement 
of painting in water-colors, and it holds an annual exhibition at the 
American Art Association, 6 E. 23d St., of the work of its resident 
members, which occurs in late January or early February, and forms 
one of the most interesting and important art eventsof the year. In 
connection with this exhibition there is a display of the year’s results 
by members of the A¢ching Club. 

The Centennial Exhibition gave a great impetus to the fine arts in 
this country, one result of which has been the establishment in this 
city within the last fifteen years of a number of promising art societies 
in addition to these just mentioned. Five of these societies form a 
group, which have combined their forces into a ‘‘ Fine Arts Society,” 
intending to be a working institution, as distinguished from a club of 
painters. It has erected a handsome building,215 W.57thSt., adapted 
to exhibitions, schools, and all other needs. In the great gallery of 
this building, several exhibitions of pictures occur annually, of which 
the most striking is that in May of the Society of American Artists, 
founded in 1877 by some of the younger men of that time who were not 
in accord with the policy of the National Academy and thought there 
was room for a second institution. ‘This building is also the home of 
the National Sculpture Society, and of the Art Students’ League, 
a school of instruction in all branches of the graphic arts; each 
exhibits work once a year. 

The purely commercial side of art in New York has much to interest 
one. At the galleries of the American Art Association, 6 E. 23d St., 
two exhibitions and sales are held spring and autumn, and often at 
other times there are special exhibitions of extreme interest, as when 
Verestchagin showed his collection there in the spring of 1889. The 
principal art dealers havelong been accustomed to add to the pleasures 
of the public by throwing open their collections of modern paintings, 
chiefly foreign, which are well worth examination. Auctions of 
pictures are rarely worth attending, unless some well-known private 
collection is to be disposed of. 


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CLUBS’ AND SOCIETIES: 


Social Clubs. 


In a book of this character the subject of social clubs need not con- 
sume much space, since without an invitation from a member nothing 
more than the outside of the club-houses can be seen’ by a stranger. 
In mar 7 cases, indeed, there is little to reward curiosity inside, while 
some, like the Union League, and others of the older and more 
prominent class, have splendid rooms filled with treasures of art, as 
well as all the appliances of comfort and luxury, which the modern 
upholsterer, decorator, and cook are able to supply. Clubs have 
increased 1n numbers and expanded in membership and importance 
with the growth of the city, and will continue to do so. 

The following is an alphabetical list of the leading social clubs ir 
New York and Brooklyn, with brief remarks: 

Aldine, t11 Fifth Av.—Business men. 

Arion, Park Av. and 59th St. 

Army and Navy, 107 W. 143d St.—Military men. 

Authors’, Carnegie Music Hall.—Literary men. 

Calumet, 267 Fifth Av.—An offshoot from the Union Club. 

Catholic, 120 W. 59th St.—Its members are Roman Catholics of 
wealth and social prominence, occupying a spacious and very beauti- 
ful club house facing the south side of Central Park. 

Century, 7 W. 43d St.—The oldest and strongest club in ‘the 
country having an intellectual object; its members are chosen for 
their interest and attainments in literature and the fine arts, as well 
as for social qualities. Strangers are admitted by card to its monthly 
literary entertainments. 

Church, 578 Fifth Av.—Episcopaiian. 

Czty, 19 W. 34th St.—Improvement of municipal government. 

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Colony Club (Women) 122 Madison Av. 

Deutscher Verein (German Club), 112 W. 59th St. —The most ex- 
clusive German society, having an elegant house, a large part of 
which is open to the ladies of the members’ families. 

Democratic, 617 Fifth Av.—Tammany politicians. 

Down-town Assoctation, 60 Pine St.—Business men. 

Engineers, 32 W. 40th St.—Civil engineers, architects, etc. 

‘‘Greek Letter” Clubs, composed of members of college fraterni- 
ties having Greek names, commonly represented by their initials: 
Alpha Delta Phi, 614 W. 113th St.; Chi Phi, 2 Wall St.; Delta Kappa 
Epsilon, 608 W. 113th St.; Delta Phi, 612 W. 116th St.; Delta Psi 
(St. Anthony), 29 E. 28th St.; Psi Upsilon, 627 W. 115th St.; Phi 
Gamma Delta, 604 W. 114th St.; Zeta Psi, 22 Andrews Av. 

Harmonte, 10 E. 60th St.—The leading Hebrew social club. 

Harvard, 27 W. 44th St.—Alumni of Harvard University. 

Knickerbocker, 319 Fifth Av.—A club of the ‘‘ gilded youth.” 

Lambs’, 70 W. 36th St.—Actors and men interested in the stage. 

Lawyers, 120 Broadway.—A luncheon club for lawyers and others 
doing business down town. It has magnificent rooms. 

Lotos, 558 Fifth Av.—Composed mainly of writers, actors, artists, 
and professional men. Monthly art receptions are held during the 
winter, and a Ladies’ Day each month, when music and recitations 
are added. If you are offered a card to one of the ‘‘ Saturday 
Nights,” take it and go, for the entertainment will be excellent. 

Manhattan, Madison Av. and 26th St.—A distinctively political as 
well as social club, representing the Democratic party, and especi- 
ally the Cleveland wing. It occupied, until 1899, the mansion of A. 
T. Stewart, and includes many wealthy and prominent politicians. 

Merchants, New York Life Ins. Bldg.—A social and commercial 
club. 

Metropolitan, Fifth Av. and 60th St.—Composed of men of great 
wealth, and commonly known as the Millionaires’ Club. It is of 
recent organization, and has a superb marble home facing Centra’ 
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New York Athletic, Sixth Av. and s9th St., and New Rochelle. 

New York, 20 W. 40th St.—One of the old and exclusive social 
clubs, composed largely of Wall St. men. 

New York Yacht, 37 W. 44th St.—This is the leading American 
yacht club, and is the custodian for the “America Cup,” for inter- 
national races. 

Ohio Soczety, Rooms, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.—Natives or former 
residents of Ohio, and their sons. 

The Players, 16 Gramercy Park.—An exclusive club of actors of 
the highest rank, managers, and professional men. Its house was 
the gift of the late Edwin Booth, and its library is a priceless col- 
lection of dramatic lore, the play-bills gathered by Augustin Daly 
the libraries of Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett, etc. 

Press, 34 W. 26th St.— Journalists. 

Progress, Fifth Av. and 63d St.—A social club of Hebrews. 

Racquet and Tennts, 27 W. 434 St.—Athletic sports. 

Reform, 42 Broadway.—A social club of men interested in low- 
tariff measures. 

Republican, 54 W. 4oth St.—A large social club, active in Repub- 
lican politics. 

Riding, 7 E. 58th St.—The ‘‘swellest” riding and driving club. 

St. Nicholas, 7 W. 44th St.—An aristocratic club composed exclu- 
sively of men whose ancestors resided in New York prior to 1785. 

Salmagundz. 14 W. 12th St.—Artists exclusively. 

Twelfth Night, 23 W. 44th St.— Ladies of the dramatic profession. 

Union, Fifth Av. and 51st St.— The first American club which was 
formed upon English models and was a real club as the term is now 
understood. It was founded in 1836, and had a succession of down- 
town resting places until 1905, when it moved into its present luxuri- 
ous house. This club has consisted from the very first of the ‘‘social 
magnates of New York.”’ 

Union League, Fifth Av. and 39th St.— Although now one of the 
foremost social clubs, it grew out of an association of leading citizens 
banded together in 1863 for the support of the Union, and has ever 
since been a distinctively Republican organization. The present mag- 


THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB—Northwest Corner Fifth Avenue and 
Thirty-ninth Street 


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nificent club house contains as an unusual feature a large art gallery, 
where extraordinary loan exhibitions are occasionally displayed, and 
which serves as a hall for entertainments. This club gives monthly 
receptions, at which new American pictures and foreign pictures 
loaned by private collectors are exhibited. Admission to these recep- 
lions is by card, obtainable from members. A ladies’ reception is 
given annually, and is a brilliant social event. 

University, Fifth Av. and s4th St.—A new granite palace. 

Women’s Press Club, Carnegie Hall. 

Yale, 30 W. 44th St.—Alumni of Yale University. 

A capital sketch of clubs and club life in old and modern New 
York was furnished by Mr. Henry L. Nelson, as a supplement to 
Harper's Weekly, for March 15, 1890. 


Secret Orders. 


All, probably, of the secret orders and societies in the United 
States have representatives in New York, and for many it is the 
American headquarters. Several of these stand before the public 
more in a social aspect, or otherwise, than on account of any secrecy 
in their proceedings, and are mentioned elsewhere, ¢. ¢. the ‘‘ Greek 
letter societies” of collegians, above. A long list of others may be 
found in Trow’s Directory. The orders of Free Masonry and Odd- 
Fellows remain for special notice. 

Free Masonry.— The J/asonzc Temple at Sixth Avy. and 23d St. is 
the headquarters of the Grand Lodge of New York State. Itisa 
lofty granite building, and contains the offices of the Grand Secretary 
and other grand dignitaries of the Blue lodges. On the right is the 
large hall of the Grand Lodge of the State, which meets annually in 
June. The remainder of the year the room is available for assemblies, 
lectures, preaching, etc. Scattered through the corridors on the upper 
floors will be noticed cases of Masonic curiosities, such as charters, pat- 
ents, aprons, scarves, jewels, swords, trowels, etc., of historical value. 
These, and the portraits and busts of Grand Masters, form a part of 
the museum attached to the Grand Lodge library. This notable 
collection of Masonic literature is open to all visitors between 3.30 
and 10.30 p.m. The lodge-rooms, Royal Arch chapters and asylums 
of Knights Templar on the upper floors, where the subordinate bodies 
meet, are open to the public and should be inspected.’ The most 
striking are the Chapter room, a fac-simile of an Egyptian tomb or 
temple, and the Commandery room or asylum on the top floor, which 


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represents the choir of a Gothic cathedral. The Grand Council of 
Royal and Select Masters meets annually there on the first Tuesday 
of September, it and the Grand Lodge being the only Grand bodies 
which assemble in this city regularly every year. The German 
Masons have a building of their own, overlooking Stuyvesant Sq. 
The high-grade or Scottish Rite Masons, who control the fourth to 
the thirty-third degrees, are divided into different organizations. The 
Supreme Grand Council of the Northern Jurisdiction meets at Scottzsh 
Rite Hall. 

Odd-Fellows.— There are over 100 lodges of the Independent Order 
of Odd-Fellows in New York City, and the headquarters of these is 
Odd-Fellows’ Hall, at 67 St. Marks Place. 


Scientific and Learned Societies. 


New York has many societies and clubs devoted to scientific, med- 
ical, and other learned investigations. The widest interest attaches 
to the New York Historical Society, at 176 Second Av. (See 
LIBRARIES AND ART.) Monthly meetings are held during the cool 
months. 

The object of this society (founded 1804) is to investigate matters 
of local history and preserve records and relics illustrating it. Besides 
the library of 70,000 volumes, the building contains the interesting 
Nineveh marbles, presented by James Lenox, and the Abbot collec- 
tion of Egyptian antiquities, consisting of some 1,200 objects. ‘* The 
gallery of art is upon the fourth floor, and, excepting the Metro- 
politan Museum of Art, comprises, perhaps, the largest permanent 
collection in America, at the present time, of valuable sculptures, 
ancient and modern paintings by renowned masters, and authentic 
portraits of persons distinguished in history. It contains 800 pictures 
and 59 pieces of sculpture, and is increasing rapidly.” 

The American Institute is an old society, which has attained wide 
notoriety on account of its annual fair, at Madison Square Garden. 
“These fairs are usually kept open for several weeks in the fall; and, 
among a vast array of machinery in motion, agricultural implements 
and manufactured goods, there are always to be seen a sufficient 
number of curious and beautiful objects.” The Farmers Gitib. . Of 
wide fame, is a section of this society. 

The Am. Geographical Society is a flourishing institution, with 
interesting rooms and a large library, at No. 15 W. 81st St., which 
any one may visit during the day. It has a grand collection of maps 

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and charts, and many interesting mementos of travel and travelers. 
Its monthly meetings (first Tuesday of each month from May to 
November) are held in Chickering Hall, when lectures on geograph- 
ical subjects are given, which are usually illustrated, and always 
attract large audiences. Free tickets are distributed by members, 
or mailed to applicants by the permanent secretary. 

The Scientific Alliance is a federation of several organizations 
devoted to natural history, which meet in the Museum of Natural 
History or at Columbia College. Information may be obtained of 
Dr. N. L. Britton, Columbia College. The component societies are: 
Academy of Sciences (founded in 1817, as the N. Y. Lyceum of 
Natural History); Zorrey Botanical Club; N.Y. Microscopical 
Society, Linnean Society of New York; Am. Mathematical Soczety,; 
N. Y. Mineralogical Club; the New York section of the American 
Chemical Soctety, N. Y. Entomological Soczety. 

All of these meetings are open freely to the public, and a monthly 
programme is printed and may be obtained at any library or similar 
place. The annual ‘‘ Reception” in March is an interesting display 
of the local scientific work of the preceding year. 

The Academy of Medicine is a corporation of physicians and 
students, devoted to the advancement of their professional science 
and interests, and the promotion of the public health. There are 
sections devoted to a variety of special diseases and departments of 
the science, androoms and a library of 20,000 volumes are open daily 
to the public at 12 W. 31st St. Inthe same building are the rooms 
of the Medical Journal Association, which exists to furnish imme- 
diate access to all current medical literature in the department of 
medical journals and monographs, while the County Medical Society 
and several special societies also hold their meetings there. 


XI, 
GREATER NEW YORK. 


For many years certain enthusiasts have been advocating the 
inclusion within the name and municipality of New York City of 
Brooklyn, Staten Island, and an extensive surburban region north- 
ward and eastward. In 1890, a legislative commission, under the 
presidency of Andrew H. Green, was appointed to inquire into the 
expediency of the project, and this commission ascertained and 
communicated to the State Legislature the views of a large number of 
residents of the city and the outlying districts concerned. The result 
was a proposition or plan for an enlargement of the city by consoli- 
dation with it of the southern part of the towns of Eastchester and 
Pelham, in Westchester County, carrying the city-line eastward 
almost to Pelham Manor; this much was accomplished 1n 1895, and 
the northern boundary of the city now reaches Yonkers, Mount Ver- 
non, and New Rochelle, The proposition also included all of Kings 
County, and as much of Queens County, Long Island, as lies west 
of a line from Great Neck to Rockaway, embracing Long Island 
City and its suburbs — Flushing, Jamaica, and the shores of Jamaica 
Bay—and the whole of Richmond County (Staten Island), This 
would give an area of nearly 320 square miles, and include a popula- 
tion of 3,437,202, making New York the second city of the world. 

This agitation led to the submission of the question to the votes of 
the people concerned, in the autumn of 1894. The result was affirma- 
tive, a charter was granted by the State in 1896, and went into effect 
January 1,1898. The city now consists, therefore, of five boroughs— 
Manhattan (Island), The Bronx (north of the Harlem), Brooklyn, 
Queens (external parts of Brooklyn), and Rzchmond (Staten Island). 


Brooklyn. 


BROOKLYN, with 1,634,351 inhabitants, according to the census of 
1g10, increased her territory, and her population, by annexing, 
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in 1894, the whoie outlying territory of Kings County, taking in the 
suburban region southward, heretofore called Gravesend, New 
Utrecht, etc., and including Coney Island, Brighton, and Manhattan 
beaches. ‘The beneficence of the change was at once apparent. 
Political misrule and speculative chicanery were replaced by the 
evenly applied government of the city, and an impetus was given to 
the growth and improvement of all those suburbs, now connected by 
a network of electric railways. 

A visit to Brooklynis among the duties, and will prove itself to the 
pleasure, of any one who wishes to see New York, for it is to all 
intents and purposes an integral part of the metropolis. There are 
four general divisions of the city, popularly, though not officially, 
called The Heights, South Brooklyn, The H'll, and the Eastern 
District, or Williamsburg. Certain principal features should be 
attended to by the sight-seer, among which are the following: The 
Heights, Prospect Park, Greenwood and other cemeteries, The 
Navy Yard, Plymouth Church, A Tour of the Elevated Railroads, 
and the Brooklyn Institute's new Museum at Prospect Park. 

The main thoroughfare of Brooklyn is Fulton St., which has a gen- 
erally eastward course. Fulton and Catherine ferries, and the East 
River Bridge, land upon it. Half a mile above the bridge stands 
the Court House, where the celebrated ‘‘ Beecher trial’’ took place; 
the Hall of Records, next to it; the Municipal Building (containing 
the departmental offices of the local government), and, prominently 
in front of all, the City Hall. These buildings are costly and impos- 
ing, and in front of them stands Ward’s bronze statue of Henry 
Ward Beecher, commemorating him not only as the great preacher, 
but as the anti-slavery champion and philanthropist. 

Near this point are grouped many large business structures, office 
buildings, banks, theaters, newspapers, etc.; and the principal shops 
line Fulton St. for half a dozen blocks above, while Washington St., 
two blocks south, near the extended bridge terminus, contains the 
costly new Federal Building, containing the Post Office, U. S. Courts, 
etc., the lofty Zag/e Building, and the Clarendon Hotel. 

The principal theaters are: Academy of Music, Lafayette Av., 
near Fulton St.; Majestic, 651 Fulton St.; Grand Opera House, Elm 
Pl., near Fulton St.; Star, Jay St., near Fulton; Montauk, Hanover 
Pl.; Broadway Theatre, Broadway, near Myrtie; Bijou, Smith and 
Livingston Sts.; Orpheum, 578 Fulton St., Hyde G& Behman’s, 
Adams St., near Myrtle Av.; Lee Avenue Academy, Lee near Divi- 


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sion Av.; /Vovelty, Driggs Av., near S. 4th St., E. D.; Gayety, 
Broadway and Throop St., E. D.; Amfire, Ralph Av. and Quincy. 


If now the visitor will walk down Montague St. toward the river, 
he will soon find himself in that part of Brooklyn called 


The Heights. 


Here the land comes to the water in a steep bluff nearly a hundred 
feet high at the foot of Montague St., where the residences of many 
of the oldest and most prominent Brooklyn families stand on what 
is known as Columbia Heights, overlooking from their windows a 
grand panorama of the harbor, the lower part of East River, and the 
Battery and Wall St. regions of New York City. Along the base of 
the bluffs are lines of wharves and spacious warehouses, where ships 
are moored and foreign commerce comes and goes; and there is only 
room for a narrow street with only warehouses, mostly bonded, those 
on the land side being built in excavations under the back gardens 
of the dwellings on Columbia Heights; but the highland above is 
covered with stately homes, hotels, churches, clubs, and institutions 
of learning, also the Art Association, and opposite to it the Brooklyn 
Library. Closely cognate is the purpose of the Long Island Histor- 
ical Society, which possesses a large and handsome edifice, with 
terra cotta and stone trimmings, at the corner of Clinton and Pierre- 
pont Sts., a library of over 80,000 volumes and pamphlets, and a 
museum of historical and curious objects. Clinton St. was for many 
years the Fifth Avenue of Brooklyn, and no part of the city is more 
fashionable than the blocks along Montague, Pierrepont, Remsen, 
and some other streets leading from Clinton to the river-bluff. There 
is not the shade and picturesque beauty here, however, which belong 
to some other districts, that ‘‘on the hill,’’ forexample. Here on The 
Heights are the three first-class hotels of Brooklyn, the Mansion 
House, the Hotel Margaret, the distinctly English St. George 
Hotel, and here have lately been erected some tall and elegant 
apartment houses, the principal ones being the Arlington, Berkeley, 
Grosvenor, Montague, Columbia, West End, Roebling, and Mar- 
garet, the latter a massive pile of ten stories, overlooking the Bay. 
Here, too, are the leading clubs—the Brooklyn, Hamilton, Excel- 
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new Democratic club — while on ‘‘The Hill” the new Republican 
Union League Club, the Lincoln, and the Montauk have been added. 

It was the number of very fine houses of worship, not to speak of 
many smaller ones, in this conspicuous part of town, which gave to 
Brooklyn the name ‘‘ City of Churches.” Plymouth Church, made 


famous by Henry Ward Beecher, was until 1899 presided over by 
Dr. Lyman Abbot, 


Plymouth Church is in Orange St., between Hicks and Henry. It 
is within easy walking distance of either Fulton Ferry or the Bridge, 
and ‘‘ anybody can direct you.” The edifice is merely a great brick 
‘‘barn,” and has no ornamentation within inconsistent with its out- 
ward simplicity. It was built in 1847, and its pulpit was occupied 4o 
years by Mr. Beecher, until his death in 1887. Its most prominent 
members dwell near by, but a large part of the regular congregation 
gathers from remote quarters of the city, while a throng of strangers 
from all parts of the country is seen within its doors each Sun- 
day. Mr. Beecher lived and died not far away, at No. 124 Hicks St., 
corner of Clark. 

Another tamous Congregational church on The Heights is Dr. 
H. P. Dewey’s Church of the Pilgrims, at the corner of Henry and 
Remsen Sts. Next to the Historical Society’s building is Holy 
Trinity, the leading Episcopal church of Brooklyn, under the 
pastorate of the Rev. Dr. J. H. Melish; while St. Ann’s is only a 
block or two distant. 

Prospect Park.— This noble park, which lies upon the high ground 
in the rear of the city, overlooking the populous wards of South 
Brooklyn and the New York harbor on one side, and the Atlantic 
shore toward Coney Island on the other, is nearly as large as Central 
Park, and is by many people considered more enjoyable, if not more 
beautiful. It is reached by the following Trolley lines: From Fulton 
Ferry or the Bridge entrance, Flatbush Av. line (the most direct) ; 
Adams and Boerum Place line, and Franklin Ay. line; from Hamilton 
(south) Ferry, the Hamilton Av. and Prospect Park line; and from 
Broadway (Williamsburg) Ferry, the Nostrand Av. line. The distance 
is about 2% miles more or less, from any of the ferries, but the route 
from Fulton Ferry or the Bridge is the most interesting. None of the 
elevated railroads go very near the park. 

In connection with this park, a series “f boulevards, 200 reet wide, 
has been designed for distant points. One is to cross East River at 
Blackwell’s Island, and connect with the Central Park or the Eastern 


Boulevard. The picturesque water-tower near the plaza overlooks 
the whole region. 


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The Park Plaza is a large paved space at the principal entrance 
of Prospect Park, where Flatbush Av., the Eastern Boulevard, and 
several other streets converge. Ornamental stone kiosks, and four 
great granite pillars, ultimately to support statues, mark the entrance 
tothe drive. The center of the Plaza is marked by a memorial arch to 
the soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, which was erected in 1892, 
and is not so good in design as the Washington Arch. It contains 
some bad half-reliefs upon its interior faces, and is surmounted by a 
colossal bronze group by Frederick MacMonnies, representing the 
chariot of victory, led by heralds of peace. It faces the park, and 
should be seen from that side before being judged of, its rear view, 
first presented to our approaching from the city, being somewhat 
ludicrous. ‘The arch is hollow, and stairways open to the public 
(entrance free) permit one to ascend to the top and get a close view 
of this work of art, which gains upon nearer acquaintance. It was 
erected during the summer of 1898. At a little distance is an electric 
fountain, illuminated during the summer at frequent intervals. Just 
within the park entrance stands a most excellent portrait-statue, also 
by MacMonnies, of J. S. Stranahan, who was called, at the time of his 
death, in 1897, Brooklyn’s foremost citizen, and who had been of 
more service than any other in establishing this and the other parks 
of the city. 

Prospect Park is a worthy rival of Central Park in attractiveness. 
It is wilder, more diversified, and freer to the public, although 
there are portions of the highest cultivation. It contains, among 
its ornaments, a statue to John Howard Payne, author of 
‘Home, Sweet Home,” and a bronze tablet noting the site 
(Battle Pass) of a critical part of the Battle of Long Island, which took 
place on these hills. The drives are exceedingly well arranged and 
delightful, and the lake is really a large body of water, upon which 
there are numerous boats; but the great advantage of Prospect Park 
is, that one may run about on the grass almost everywhere, or wander 
-hrough the thickets at will. There is a winding lake with boats, a 
shady ramble, etc. From Lookout Hill, a magnificent view is to be 
gained, reaching from the Atlantic horizon to the Palisades and the 
Orange Hills; and on certain lawns, especially on Saturday afternoons, 
hundreds of brightly appareled young people may be seen playing ten- 
nis, or croquet, or practicing at archery, or otherwise actively amusing 
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Museum of the Brooklyn Institute.—This is the foundation of a 
museum of natural history and ethnology, which is housed in the 
building an eighth of a mile east of the Park Plaza, beyond the 
beautiful water tower. ‘The collections are open free to the public 
from Wednesday to Saturday, but 25 cents admission fee is charged 
on Monday and Tuesday. These collections are the property of the 
Brooklyn Institute, and consist of a large amount of material 
illustrating all departments of zodlogy, which are displayed in suit- 
able cases, and are well worth seeing. The display of local birds and 
insects is especially good. A considerable amount of geological, 
mineralogical, and ethnological material has been gathered and 
arranged, and the beginning of an art gallery has been made, 
which already numbers several interesting pictures. 

The Brooklyn Institute is one of the most prominent social and 
intellectual influences in the city, being practically a system of 
university extension work. It originated in 1823, as an apprentices’ 
library movement, with lectures, etc., and in 1843 its scope was 
enlarged, but not much was done for the public until 1887, when it 
was reorganized, its membership and scope vastly increased, and it 
began a career of extensive usefulness. All the scientific and literary 
societies of the city joined with it, as sections, and others were 
organized, until now circles and classes for study and social 
societies exist under its organization in almost every line of work 
one can think of; and the public meetings and lectures before the 
sections or before the whole body of members are so numerous that 
three or four often occur on the same evening. The present build- 
ing is only the beginning of what is intended to be a vast and mag- 
nificent seat of popular learning. ‘The legislature and the city have 
assisted the institute by large appropriations, and endowments are 
accumulating, so that additions will rapidly be made, and the plans 
of McKim, Mead & White will a few years hence be materialized 
into a building which will be one of the largest and handsomest 
educational institutions in the metropolis. 


Greenwood Cemetery.— This famous city of the dead covers a 
square mile of the highlands that lie back of South Brooklyn and 
overlook New York Harbor. Itis 24% miles from the bridge, and is 
reached most directly by the Fifth Av. line of the Brooklyn El. 
Ry., which has a station at its principal (the northern) entrance. 
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cemetery, and the driver explains what are generally regarded as the 
most interesting things as he goes along. The charge for the whole 
ride is 25 cents. This cemetery was opened in 1842, and about 250,000 
burials have been made since that time, including the most distin- 
guished citizens of New York and Brooklyn who have passed away 
during the last half-century. The control is not vested in a private 
corporation, but in a board of public trustees, who now have at its 
disposal, for its maintenance, a fund approaching $1,000,000. These 
large resources, and the wealth of many of the families represented 
upon the rolls of its dead, have permitted a vast expenditure in 
beautifying both the public and private parts; and there is no bury- 
ing ground in the country which compares with Greenwood for the 
cost and elaborateness of its mortuary monuments or the care taken 
of itasawhole. The stone-bedded, tile-drained roads alone measure 
25 miles in length. 

The northern is the principal one of the several entrances, and its 
grand Gothic gateway of brown stone, elaborately carved, holds the 
offices of the administration andavisitors’ room. Waiting rooms will 
also be found at the other entrances, each of which is furnished with 
toilet rooms, etc.; and near the center of the cemetery — which covers 
almost a square mile (474 acres)—is ‘‘ The Shelter House” (at the 
intersection of Locust and Southwood Avs.), designed for the shelter 
of visitors who chance to be remote from the various entrances and 
need the conveniences which it affords. From Plateau Hill, and 
from many other points, far-reaching and beautiful views of the har- 
bor, the Jersey shore, and New York and Brooklyn cities may be 
obtained, and a walk of half a mile from the eastern entrance will 
take one to Prospect Park. 


Among the thousands of mortuary monuments, some are worthy of 
special note. Among them are: 

The monument and bronze bust to Horace Greeley, on Locust Hill, 
near Oak Ay., which was erected by the printers of the country. 

The triangular block covering the remains of Prof. S. F. B. Morse, 
the inventor of the electric telegraph; this stands on Highwood 
Hill, is surrounded by many costly monuments, and overlooks the 
Clinton monument. 

The Soldiers’ Monument, which is tall and costly, but lacks 
impressiveness; it stands on the plateau of Battle Hill, whence a 
broad view is to be gained. 

The Theater Fire Monument, opposite the main entrance, under- 
neath which, in acommon grave, rest the unrecognized and unclaimed 


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bodies of those who perished in the burning of the Brooklyn Theater, 
in December, 1876, when over 300 people lost their lives. 

The Firemen’s Monument, surmounted by the figure of a fireman 
holding a child in his arms. It was erected by the old volunteer fire 
department of New York City, whose chief engineer, Harry Howard, 
has placed elsewhere in the grounds a statue in memory of his foster 
mother, showing her as adopting him when saved from a burning 
building. 

Many of the monuments take the form of Greek or Gothic memo- 
rial chapels, one of the most conspicuous and beautiful of which is 
that to Miss Mary M. Dauser, a philanthropic woman, at the inter- 
section of Fir and Vine Avs. 

Another temple worth special attention is that of A. S. Scribner, at 
Cypress and Vine Avs., which was made in Italy and contains the 
figure of Hope. 

The monument to commemorate John Matthews, at the south- 
westerly end of Valley Water, is in the form of arichly carved canopy 
and spire above a sculptured sarcophagus, upon the top of which les 
a full-length marble figure of the dead man. Onthe tablet under the 
canopy is a veiled female figure seated in a chair and typifying grief. 
The artist was Carl Miiller, and the cost $30,000. 

The Pilot’s Monument, erected by the pilots of New York Harbor 
to a hero among them; and the ‘‘Sea Captain’s Statue” (to Capt. 
John Correja, holding the actual sextant he was accustomed to use) 
will interest those fond of the sea. 


Other fine and costly carvings in Italian marble are seen in the 
monument to the Brown Brothers, the New York bankers, in the 
emblematic group standing in the lot of the elder James Gordon 
Bennett, founder of the New York Hera/d, and in the famous Char- 
lotte Canda monument, at Fern and Greenbough Avs. ‘The colossal 
bronze statue of Governor De Witt Clinton, in Baywood Dell, should 
not be missed by the visitor to Greenwood, who will come away feel- 
ing that perhaps it is as satisfactory as anything of the more pre- 
tentious sort in the whole cemetery. 


The Grant Statue at Grant Square, where Bergen St. crosses Bed- 
ford Av., is worth the attention of tourists. It stands in front of the 
splendid house of the Union League Club, by which it was presented 
to the city, and in one of the most interesting neighborhoods on ‘‘the 
Hill.”” Itis the work of Partridge, is of heroic size, in bronze, and 
represents Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on his favorite horse in campaign 
dress, as he appeared at the Battle of the Wilderness. Very im- 
posing ceremonies attended its unveiling in April, 1895, and it has 
given satisfaction to the critics as well as the citizens. 

The Navy Yard.— Tourists from the interior of the country are 
sure to be desirous of inspecting the U.S. Navy Yard in Brooklyn. 
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168 HANDY GOIDE £O NEW YORK CITY, 


where in Revolutionary days was moored the dreadful Jersey, worst 
of the prison hulks. It is at the foot of York St., and may be reached 
from all parts of Brooklyn by electric cars, two lines crossing the 
bridge to Manhattan. 

This is the foremost naval station in the country, and its brick wall 
embraces a space of 45 acres in the yard proper, while 100 more acres 
closely adjacent belong to the establishment. The space within the 
walls is largely occupied by huge machine-shops, storehouses, and 
the offices of the superintendents of various branches of the service. 
The United States Naval Lyceum, founded by officers of the navy 
in 1833, is here; it has a fine library, and a large collection of histor- 
ical curiosities, together with valuable geological and mineralogica! 
cabinets. Several trophies of the prowess of the navy in the earlier 
of the country’s wars, in the shape of captured guns and mortars, 
are displayed in a little park outside near the headquarters office. 
The ‘‘ quarters” of the officers of the Yard form an interesting line 
of old-fashioned residences on high ground along the south side of the 
premises; and the large, pillared structure seen in the distance, as 
one looks eastward, is the U. S. Marine Hospital, where 500 
patients can be taken care of. One important shop was burned 
in 1899. 

The Navy Yard consists two portions, separated by the deep bay 
of ‘‘the basin,” or Wallabout, into which the dry-docks open. The 
peninsular part outside of the basin is called the Cob Dock and 
forms an extensive park-like space, where musters and drills of 
sailors, marines, or recruits may be witnessed. The great yellow 
hulk, housed in, permanently moored on the outer margin of the 
Cob Dock is the old frigate Vermont, forming a ‘‘ receiving ship,” 
that is a recruiting station, furnishing depot, and home for recruits 
and sailors while prepairing for or awaiting assignment to service. 
Ships in commission often lie at the wharves of the Cob Dock, to 
which a small ferry boat runs from the mainland of the Yard, but 
usually some sort of special permission must be obtained in order to 
cross in it to the Cob Dock and visit the Vermont or other naval 
ships there. Within the basin often lie many naval ships, transports, 
torpedo boats, etc., inor out of commission. These are usually 
eccessible to visitors in the afternoon; but visitors are advised to 
make arrangements beforehand, if possible, with some officer of the 
Yard or of the ship they wish toinspect. It will smooth the way. 


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The Graving or Dry-docks on the basin front are of the greatest 
interest. Their dimensions are as follows: No. 1 (wood) length, 
362 feet over all, 331 feet on the floor; breadth across top, 66 feet; 
draught, 25 feet. No. 2(gramite) length over all, 491 feet; on floor, 
450 feet; breadth across top, 85 feet, breadth of entrance floor, 52 feet; 
draught, 25% feet. No. 3 (granite) length over all, 657 feet; on floor, 
564 feet; breadth across top, 7o feet; on entrance floor, 64 feet; 
draught, 29 feet. (From figures furnished by Captain of the Yard, 
Dec. 14, 1898, omitting fractions.) The huge steam pumps belong- 
ing to these docks can empty them of water in a few hours. In 
order to handle the vast pieces of plate-armor, machinery, gun-car- 
riages, and guns themselves required to be moved to and from 
modern ships, the Yard possesses a floatzng crane, which is con- 
spicuous and interesting, as it will lift and swing to any point within 
its reach a weight of 75 tons; but a new tIoo-ton crane is now being 
erected to supplement and exceea the capability of this mighty engine. 
About 2,000 men are ordinarily employed at this Navy Yard. 


Staten Island. 


The description already given (see Harsor) of the shores of Staten 
Island forestalls the need of any extended remarks here. The ferry 
from New York lands at St. George, at the northern extremity of the 
island. ‘This is the terminus of the Baltimore & Ohio’s branch line 
which crosses from Elizabeth, N. J., by a splendid bridge, but thus 
far is used exclusively as a freight-carrying route, and it is the cen- 
tral station of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad, which 
reaches all the shore villages of importance. 

Staten Island is hilly and contains many attractive spots and 
much excellent farming land. ‘The views of the harbor and harbor- 
shores gained from its northern highlands are exceedingly fine, 
while the most charming and artistic river scenery is to be had along 
Arthur Kill and the sound separating the island from New Jersey. 
Quaint old ports are scattered along the southern shore, and the odd 
little villages throughout the interior, as countrified as if they were 
away in the woods of Cattaraugus. But interspersed everywhere are 
the modern and luxurious country residences of wealthy New 
Yorkers, who go back and forth daily. This interior is traversed 
only by wagon roads, Rzchmond, the judicial seat of the island 
(when it was Richmond County), being itself away from the railroad, 
but accessible by trolley cars from St. George. 

Sailor’s Snug Harbor.— The most interesting and notable thing 
on the north shore of the island is this asylum for aged and infirm sea- 


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men, half a mile beyond New Brighton. ‘This benefice is the result 
of a bequest made at the beginning of last century by Capt. Richard 
Randall, then a prominent member of the Marine Society of New 
York. This bequest consisted mainly of his farm, whose southern 
boundary was the line of the present Astor Place, and which yielded 
to the trustees about $40,000. This has been so carefully managed 
that the property of the Harbor now approaches $18,000,000 in value, 
and the income suffices to care for 1,000 beneficiaries. Its stately 
and complete buildings occupy a park and attached farming lands 
amounting together to 185 acres. About 750 pensioners are at pres- 
ent on the rolls, all of whom have seen a certain amount of actual 
service as sailormen. ‘The institution is open to visitors at all suit- 
able hours, and is well worth inspection, especially in summer, when 
the grounds and the water-views they afford are admirable. A mort- 
uary Monument covering the bones of the founder stands near the 
main entrance, and in another part of the park is a bronze statue of 
Randall, by Augusta St. Gaudens, which is one of the most satisfac- 
tory pieces of sculpture in the neighborhood of New York. The 
visitor should take pains to see, within the buildings, the workshops, 
where scores of cheerful old mariners sit in the sunshine, smoke 
their pipes and work at plaiting baskets, mats, and other articles 
of straw, netting hammocks, fishnets, tidies, etc., and rigging toy 
models of painfully accurate schooners, brigs, and full-rigged ships. 
These articles are sold by them, and the more able and industrious 
make a considerable income in this way. The Sailor’s Snug Harbor 
is as sunny and cheerful a refuge as can be found in the Union. 
Prohibition Park (Westerleigh) reached by cars from St. George 
or Port Richmond, is an exclusive community of persons primarily 
interested in the prohibition of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. 
The leader of the enterprise is Dr. I. K. Funk, of Funk & Wagnalls< 
The park is now the home of many men of wealth and cultivation, 
who are making a beautiful village there. A feature is the great 
auditorium in which a summer programme of lectures, exhibitions, 
conventions, and meetings is in progress from June to October, 
attracting a large number of visitors interested in various ‘‘ causes.” 
The South Side of the island has stations for Quarantine (Staple- 
ton), Fort Wadsworth (one and a half miles from the railroad), and 
South Beach, a summer beach-resort (also reached by a steamboat 
line trom the Battery), which is a smal] imitation of Coney Island, 


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with various cheap restaurants and amusement places, and plentifu 
‘‘ beer and skittles.” 

Midland Beach is a newer, far more select, and really pleasant 
place, a mile beyond and reached by an interesting electric-car route. 

Trolley Lines and Ferries.—Electric car lines have spread greatly 
here, of late, the rivalry of two companies now making all the north- 
ern parts of the island accessible by cars from St. George, which 
reach southward to Fort Wadsworth, South Beach, Midland Beach, 
the new shore-resort, and Richmond. Inland, cars run along 
pleasant country roads, such as the Richmond turnpike. Other lines 
skirt the northern terrace, and connect by ferry at Port Richmond 
with Bergen Point and trolley lines to Jersey City. The same lines 
continue along the north shore to Howland Hook, where a new ferry 
takes passengers across to Elizabethport, whence they can reach any 
part of suburban New Jersey by electric cars. 

A ferry is now run between Tompkinsville and Seuth Brooklyn. 


he VICTORIA HOTEL 
ASBURY PARK, N. J. 


An Unobstructed View of beach and bathing grounds 
OPEN ALL THE YEAR 
Reduced rates until July 1st and after September ist 
Terms and further particulars sent on request 


THE SURF AT ALL TIMES 


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Asbury Park, located on the North Jersey Coast fifty miles south 
of New York, is the social centre of a chain of twenty notable resorts 
extending from Sandy Hook to Sea Girt. It has all the best at- 
tractions of every other seaside retreat in America, but stands alone 
for its marvelous combination of country and seashore. Three 
picturesque fresh water lakes afford all the delights of canoeing. 
It’s great stretch of unobstructed ocean front is bordered by the 
finest promenade in the world. Seven bathing beaches of soft, 
clean sand give health and delight to hundreds of thousands. Es- 
pecially for children is Asbury Park a paradise, its numerous free 
pavilions and recreation pier forming a popular feature. At the 
Arcade, one of the best bands plays twice daily. In the Casino 
high-class theatricals are a nightly feature, while at the Auditorium, 
seating ten thousand, oratorios and concerts are given all summer 
by a permanent chorus of one thousand voices, an orchestra of 
sixty-five and the most powerful organ in the world. Many of the 
great stars of grand opera and the best musical organizations of 
America will be heard there this summer. The features herewith 
pictured and described prove Asbury Park, now far-famed for its 
high state of municipal development, to be the most wonderful sea- 
side resort of the new century. 

It is reached all rail by the Pennsylvania system and the Central 
Railroad of New Jersey; by the express steamers and trains of the 
Sandy Hook Route. Excursion fare, unlimited ticket, good on all 
routes, $1.70. One hundred trains, vestibuled and parlor car ser- 
vice, each day. Patten Line boats for Pleasure Bay, connecting 
with Asbury Park trolley, leave the Battery four times daily, 80 


cents for the round trip. 
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NEW JERSEY : 
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Eeiel Park View Saaz 


One block from ocean on Atlantic Square. Rooms: Single or en suite with bath, 


elevator service, capacity 300. Special rates June and September. Evening Dinners. 


LLOYD EVANS, Manager 


211 Third Averttee THE BRIGHTON Asbury Park,N.J. 


The Brighton is centrally located on the north side of Third Avenue, one block 
and a half from the beach. A good view of the ocean may be had from its broad 
verandas. It is within five minutes walk of both of the new casinos. LE llectric_ cars 
pass within a few steps of the house, leading to all parts of the city and suburbs. 
The rooms and halls are light, airy, and well ventilated. House equipped with 
modern improvements. Good table and homelike surroundings. Make reserva- 
tions early. Hebrews need not apply. 


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THE SHOREHAM 


1209 3rd Av. Asbury Park, N. J. 


Situated one block from Beach 
Newly remodeled and furnished 


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SUMMER«s: WINTER RESORT 


HOTEL ORMOND 
ASBURY PARK, N. J. 
One half block from Ocean 


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Sea Baths 


Write for special rates during 
May, June, July and 
September 


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One Block from Ocean and Near All 
Attractions. Convenient to Hot and Cold 
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208 Second Avenue 
Asbury Park, New Jersey 


White for special rates in June, July and 
September 


Beauty spot of the North Jersey Coast, 
Asbury Park Where Country Meets the Sea. 
Absolutely free from mosquitoes and malaria. Salt-water pool and 
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band and other famous musical organizations daily: 200 hotels: many 


trains via Pennsylvania and Jersey Central railroads. Literature free 


by writing Municipai Information Bureau, 900 Boardwalk. 


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ASBURY PARK, N. J. 


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Atlantic Highlands is a village with several hotels on Sandy 
Hook. There is much of picturesque and historic interest in the 
neighborhood. 

Long Branch was a favorite resort for summer visitors to the sea- 
side (particularly those from Philadelphia) a century ago. ‘‘ The 
Long Branch of to-day . . . may be described in one sentence: 
It is the only resort on the coast which supports a synagogue; the 
‘tiger’ has two superbly appointed jungles; it is ‘fashionable’ in the 
sense in which the word is used by those who fondly imagine that 
lavish display of wealth is evidence of high social position. It may 
be judged from the foregoing that Long Branch is not a place 
whither a circumspect parent would take his family for a quiet sum- 
mer by the sea; but for those who like to be in the whirl of a ‘ fash- 
ionable’ watering-place it is without a rival.” 

But those who would not care to live at Long Branch may find 
interest enough to tempt them to one or more day's stay there. A 
line of steamers, supplemented by many irregular excursions, lands 
its passengers at the Iron Pier, which extends 800 ft. out to deep 
water, at a height of 20 ft. above the tide. The base of this pier 
rests upon Ocean Avenue, a part of the ‘‘ beach drive” which runs 
from Sandy Hook to Barnegat Bay. Ocean Avenue toward even- 
ing is probably the liveliest thoroughfare in the United States. Here 
one can see almost every kind of vehicle-- stages crowded with 
excursionists, buggies drawn by swift roadsters, tandems, four-in- 
hands, T-carts, etc., many of them perfectly appointed, and each 
interesting in its own way, as representing one of the many types of 
people to be found at this resort. 

Ocean Grove, a seaside town under the control of an association of 
Methodist clergymen, which owes its origin (1868) to the need of larger 
space and better accommodations for the annual summer camp- 
meetings formerly held at Vineland, N. J. The object in view of its 
founders was to establish a school and nursery of religious influence, 
where people would be attracted to remain for rest and out-door 
recreation. To this end, everything has been done to further the 
exclusiveness, not only, but the devotional spirit of the place. The 
streets are named after localities prominent in sacred history or after 
the fathers of the Methodist Church, and the largest buildings in the 
place are the Auditorium, the Tabernacle, intended mainly for ‘* holi- 


180 HANDY GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. 


ness” meetings, the Young People’s Temple, and a topographical 
model of modern Jerusalem, ;15 of real size. The new Auditorium, 
built in 1893, is a vast oval hall, spanned by a roof of a single arch, 
which will seat nearly 10,000 people. It is magnificently lighted by 
electricity, is dignified in its simplicity, and is one of the largest, and 
probably the most satisfactory,meeting-hall in the country and per- 
haps in the world. Its cost, approaching $100,000, was defrayed 
wholly by voluntary subscriptions ; and there is rarely any charge 
for admission ; but a collection is taken up at nearly every meeting. 
Innumerable association meetings and religious conventions or 
special services are held, in addition to the daily stated meetings for 
preaching, prayer or praise, during the two midsummer months, and 
the effort at religious revival is incessant. The fanatical outward 
manifestation which accompanied this spirit, and the ascetic rules 
of the early days, have been much relaxed of late years; and now 
one sees little outward difference between Asbury Park and Ocean 
Grove, except the great number of quaint and pretty canvas cottages 
which form whole streets in the latter town. The hotels are good, 
many of the houses costly and elegant, and surrounded by beautiful 
grounds; the town is well sewered and watered, has gas and electric 
lights, and the religious intent of the community is no longer made 
burdensome to a resident who may not care to participate in it as 
fully as his neighbor. ‘Trolley cars run south as far as Bel Mar. 


Westchester County. 


The hills and dales of Westchester County, which joins New York 
County and City on the north, are densely populated, and many pretty 
towns and villages may be counted. Yonkers is on the Hudson, 
and joins the northern limits of New York. It has 47,931 citizens, a 
great part of whom come regularly to business in the metropolis. 
Next eastward, covering the central hills, is W¢. Vernon, a scattered 
cown with stations on both the Hudson River and New Haven 
tailroads, and many beautiful drives. Still farther east is historic 
Westchester. Eastchester and Pelham are hamlets at the head 
of inlets from Long Island Sound, and are traversed by the Harlem 
Branch of the New Haven R. R. New Rochelle, 17 miles from 
Grand Central Depot, on the New Haven R. R., is exceedingly 
pretty and popular with New Yorkers. It was settled in very early 
times by Huguenots, and preserves many interesting relics of its 
colonial period. It may be reached by trolley via Mt. Vernon. 


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Long /sland Coast—Coney Island and Rockaway. 


The ocean beaches at the western extremity of Long Island are 
comprehended under the general designations ‘‘Coney Island” and 
‘‘Rockaway.” Important distinctions between the separate parts of 
each of these seaside resorts exist, however, and should be noted. A 
very pleasant nearby resort is Bergen Beach on Jamaica Bay, reached 
by one of the most delightful trolley rides out of Brooklyn ; it con- 
tains a hotel built in 1652. 

Coney Island proper, including West Brighton, is the western- 
most, oldest, most crowded and democratic part of this whole series 
of beaches. Here‘‘thereis the famous Dreamland and Luna Park, also 
the concert stands, beer gardens, variety shows, skating rinks, wooden ° 
toboggan-slides, shooting-galleries, bathing-houses, merry-go-rounds, 
inclined railways, museums, aquariums, brass-bands, pop-corn and 
hot-sausage venders ;” in fact, everything that can be thought of for 
amusement and penny-catching. Out from the beach extend two 
long iron piers, with bathing-houses beneath them and restaurants, 
etc., at the end; and here (and here alone) is where the steamboats 
from New York land their passengers. The bathing arrangements 
here are good. West Brighton is thronged with people of every kind 
from noon till midnight, and most of all on Sundays; but there are 
certainly more plebeians than patricians. 

Brighton.—Half a mile east of West Brighton is Brighton, the 


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HANDY GOTDE’TO NEW VORK CIry: 183 


favorite beach for Brooklyn people. Here is a huge hotel, which has 
been repeatedly moved back from the shore, out of the way of the 
waves ; and the beautiful grounds have more than once been ruined 
by the devastation of gale and salt spray. The piazzas are so broad 
that 2,000 persons may sit down at once at the tables set in them, and 
still leave ample space for promenading ; and 20,000 meals may be 
given inasingle day. The prices are not excessive, though some- 
what in advance of average rates in the city. In front of this hotel 
is a band-stand, canopied by a huge shell-shaped sounding-board, 
where an orchestra gives concerts twice a day. The bathing-houses 
are of great size and conveniently arranged, but none of them ob- 
structs the seaward outlook. An excellent vaudeville theater is the 
only amusement outside the hotel. Reached by elevated cars from 
Brooklyn Bridge, and trolley cars from Coney Island. 

Manhattan Beach.—This resort, next east of Brighton Beach, is 
the favorite place for New Yorkers of the well-to-do class, and un- 
doubtedly the spot to which the visitor will oftenest return. The 
Manhattan grounds are occupied by the structures and grounds about 
two vast hotels— the ‘‘ Manhattan” and the ‘‘ Oriental.” The former 
is at the terminus from the railroad to New York and Brooklyn, and 
at the western end of the beach, nearest Brighton. The beach in 
front is protected by a piled breakwater which supports a planked 
walk, and a broad space of asphalted walks, lawns and flower-beds is 
arranged, with a great number of park benches. Here one may 
stroll or sit at ease, with the ocean on one hand and the gay bustle of 
the hotel piazzas on the other. Immediately in front of the hotel is a 
sort of out-door theater shed, in which Sousa’s band, sitting inside 
a vast concavity which acts as a sounding-board, discourses music 
afternoons and evenings. A few rods down the beach are the bathing- 
houses, which contain no less than 2,700 rooms and all possible con- 
veniences. Half a mile eastward, and connected with the Manhattan 
by a broad walk and series of lawns, is the great Orzental Hotel, with 
its own esplanade and bathing establishment. Steam and trolley cars. 

Rockaway.—The next beach east of Coney Island, from which it 
is separated by the outiet of Jamaica Bay, is Rockaway. This is one 
of the oldest seaside resorts on the Long Island shore, and may be 
reached either by the Long Island R. R., by Brooklyn trolley cars, or 
by steamboat. ‘The latter route carries by far the greater number of 
excursionists. Rockaway has lost the elegance and prestige which 
belonged to it a quarter of a century ago. 


184 SEASIDE AND SUBURBAN RESORTS. 


The New Jersey Shore. 


Although in another State, and on the opposite side of the Hudson, 
the cities fronting upon the western side of the North River are an 
integral part of the Metropolitan District, since a great number of 
their inhabitants do business in New York and pass back and forth 
daily. These are Jersey City, Hoboken, West Hoboken, Gutenberg, 
and Weehawken. 


Jersey City.—This great town, which has absorbed several con- 
tiguous and once separate municipalities, now has 206,433 popula- 
tion, and stretches from the harbor shore opposite the Liberty Statue 
to the Hoboken line opposite the foot of Christopher St., New York ; 
and it reaches back to the Hackensack River and Meadows. Its 
front is low land, a large breadth of which has been reclaimed from 
the harbor, inclosing the great Communipaw Basin at the outlet of 
the Morris & Essex Canal, in the rear of the terminus of the Central 
R. R. of New Jersey. This low frontage, known originally as 
Paulus Hook (or Point), offered less inducement to the early settlers 
than other equally accessible districts near New Amsterdam, and 
was doubly exposed to Indian depredations. It was therefore slow 
to be settled and cultivated ; and the prejudice thus naturally begun 
has been unnaturally continued in the minds of New Yorkers ever 
since. This feeling is intensified by the fact that the traveler on any 
of the railways that pass through Jersey City sees only the forlornest 
streets ; and also by the fact that the town offers no one special 
attraction to the public gaze. The water-front is for the most part 
in possession of railway and steamship companies. Behind them are 
a great number of factories, some of immense proportions — notably 
large glass works, crucible works, steel works, zinc works, locomo- 
tive works, boiler and machine shops, founderies, etc. The lofty 
piles of the sugar refineries form a conspicuous object near the center 
of the city, as one crosses from New York. A mile back from the 
river-front the long rocky ridge of Bergen Heights —a continuation 
of the Hudson Highlands— extends north and south as an elevated 
peninsula between New York and Newark Bays, as far as the pretty 
village of Bergen Point; and furnishes a fine building site for resi- 
dences, where the windows overlook the panorama of the whole har- . 
bor. Upon this hill are many very pleasant streets and some fine 
churches and schools; but there is little or nothing in the town to 
interest the casual sight-seer. Electric trolley-cars run to all parts 


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of the city and to the neighboring cities, including lines to Newark. 
All these concentrate in a Union Station at the foot of Montgomery 
St., the landing place for the ferries from Cortlandt and Debrosses 
Sts., New York. The great new station of the Pennsylvania R. R. 
is at this ferry. 

Hoboken.—North of Jersey City (Hoboken Av. is the dividing line) 
lies the very convenient but unlovely city of Hoboken. Its water- 
front is made by the wharves of several great transatlantic steamer 
lines, particularly those sailing to the German ports, and by the 
station of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railway system, 
including the Morris & Essex branch, which does such an extensive 
suburban business throughout ‘‘The Oranges.” At this station land 
the ‘‘ Hoboken” ferries from Barclay and Christopher Sts.; and here 
start the electric cars of the Elevated Railroad to the hilltop,,and 
Hudson County Court House, and of various surface lines. The 
population of Hoboken (60,000) is very largely German, and is 
devoted to manufacturing to a considerable extent. It has one dis- 
tinctly American institution, however, in the Stevens Institute, 
which occupies a wooded promontory of rocks that juts out into the 
river conspicuously and is covered by a pretty park. This is a poly- 
technic and scientific school of high rank, founded by the late Com- 
modore Stevens, who equipped the ‘‘Stevens Battery,” famous in 
the early part of the Civil War; and whose ‘‘castle’”’ overtops the 
trees of what was formerly his estate. 

Weehawken is another little city, north of Hoboken and under the 
hill which here approaches the water more closely than below. It 
was the scene of Revolutionary operations ; and here, a few years 
later, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr fought the duel which 
cost the former his life. Now it is known principally as the 
terminus of the New York, West Shore & Buffalo and the Ontario & 
Western iailroads, and is connected with 42d St. and Franklin 
St., New York, and with Brooklyn, by ferries. On the summit of 
the lofty bluffs is a scattered German community, and very pleasant 
strolling places along the wooded cliffs northward, which command 
a magnificent outlook far down the bay. ‘This locality is reached by 
electric cars from the ferry. whose cars run out to the old Guttenberg 
race track, and up to Hudson Heights and Fort Lee. 

Fort Lee, at the foot of the Palisades of the Hudson, and opposite 
Washington Heights, is a small village upon ground memorable since 


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INDEX 


PAGE 

(Net Saree SOUARE 44 
Academy of Medicine...... 158 
Sliban va Datvale im crea cee 9 
Albany, People’s Line (Night)... 9 
Nidiner@ lib aac ae eee 152 
Allan states Lincatreec. canton 3 
American Fine Art Society..... 149 


American Geographical Society, 


Ty Cle na Soke: itn rene 157 
American Institute, The........ 157 
ACINETIGAN eines pny. eee eee 2 
AmericanSurety Company Bldg 82 
American Volunteers, The..... 131 
FA MUS GMENTS)..5. seh eeiee ee eee 36-41 
ANCHO GIEIN Geers once ae oe 
Antiquities (See Metropolitan 

Museum of Art). 

Apprentices’ Library, The..... 148 
AGilariiiims bhe@ tee. neater e 106 
Architecture (see Metropolitan 

Museum of Art). 

TION Le LUD ae ee een ate AI, 152 
AMET P EME! NEM AY (Clhblley.g5An5 Honea 152 
ATT Galleriegy metho erect 148 
Artestudentis Weacue.a0...4.-5. 150 
Arts, The (see Metropolitan 

Museum of Art). 

AS Dilicye babi ene te eee eae 173 
NissayaOficemwlne seme: mene 76 
Associations for Helping, the 

PAOLO) Sera Mae. Oe MARAE Soke ee ere 134 
NCTOLIA Meh by mean ae snes tn 26 
AStOmLOLaA Lan bb C.eer tere rs fe. 142 
Atlantic Avenue Ferry.......... 26 
Ndiaye [ERA NAGI Sees goes eese 179 
AtiadiiGwi ran SpDOLh Lan Geen ne. 6 
Atlas Steamship Company...... 6 
PALE Oy Sh CU Die ee aeeone sec 152 
BAGGAGE IDD PARISI joc Bone 14, 16 

Bagsave Outzoine ee 16 
Baltimore & Ohio (Royal Blue 

LANG) aoe a chee rein eee To 
Banks, Financial Institutions.. 75 
Baptist Ghunchesses. eens 124 
Barclay-Street berry = ...-6-s).: 26 
Barve Omce so nere. eae sees. 105 
Barnard Annex, The (for Wo- 

TTL CTI) ote eats eae ee oe eee 140 
Battervel herria esse 104 
Battery par ke ae eee 20; 25 
Battery Parkandthe Upper Bay 95 
BAXxtenStneetiinmonws sore seks tenes 112 
BaywAsbrip Down the-ta.eeees 103 
Bay Ridge & ConeyIsland Ferry 26 
“Bay,” The (see Baxter Street) 
pedloeis Island) Merrye ss. eoe. 26 
BellevuendOospitalesss. ye Totes 2: 
Bercen Lietz htsa essa seek ose. 179 
PMLCL OUSC Scant cree cee eee 130 
BAAC We llSt SlATE esr encmemar ens ie 
Blackwell’s Island Ferry........ 26 


189 


PAGE 
BotanicakGargen-es tence. 62 
BOWE ss here tenee a eee ae 116 
Bowdines Greens eo. -t eee. 66 
Branch PospOmees: feti-.es. 32 


LOG) sonst eee Ee eas tae oe 9 
IB PIGS CS see ree anne a wkd Poet 31 
BRISHLOM ete tee eee ees 181 
Broad Street (Looking North 

{rOMBeaver Street)s sec. ke TI 
pies to City Hall, A Walk 

ASbNE MAS ys et tay eee ee ne , 90 
Praaindy poe sing North from 
theyeost OfiGeywet sete eee en ele AES 
Broadway Squad, The........... III 
BLOnxerarkecnwee set ee eee 61 
IBOOK VIE ees ie eee ee ee 159 

Features of, tobe seen........ 160 
Brooklyn Bridge, The...... ;... 30, 31 
Brooklyn Bridge Cars. ....:..... 31 
PO aNeD Ferries, Various (see : 

Plat Enna alee cate eee 2 
Riaokien ELeGI Shits oa. nt 161 
Brooklynelustitutes: eee s eee 165 
Brooklyn Institute Museum.... 165 
BrookivnieNavy Vand 1.5... 167 
eer Street and Elevated 

ER ROR tr ene MCPS REE: ae 25 
Breollen (THReEa@tersacr.s ese 160 
CAB orsiatetchavatevelstats aie's eeteerate anatetecctets 14 

ere Glubasc eee ee 152 
Garniage: PavyeSer. seven eee 14 
Castie Gardeneeanss ee ee 104 
Catheninew ennyvesan sete eons 26 


Cathedralof St. Seah TheDivine 129 


GatholiciGlibyee eee eee 152 
Catskill (Catskill Mount’n R.R.) 9 
Cautionstomeravielersems serene 16 
@entral-Aventieny-.t. seuss eee 63 
GeniraleSroad waver eee eecee 96 
CentralePark vere eee ee 44 
IMiGainSiOtEACCESS! LOne > ae selene 44 
Central Railr’d of New Jersey.. Io 
@entury lube wee ee eee ae 152 
Chamber of Commerce:..-: -..2. 68 
Charity Organization Society.. 133 
Chinatown and the Chinese.... 114 
Chinese; Westadrantsis.ee ene ce IIS 
Chinesertieateres areeucee.doaee ier 
Christian Alliance, etc., The... 131 
Christopher Street Ferry....... 26 
Ghurch Club sieeve eee 152 
Church of the Strangers, The.. 126 
Churches and Religious Work. 119 
Churches in Brooklyn. s..... =. 162 
@hurchesserotestante merce. ¢ 119 
Circulating Library and Bran- 
CHES ER ate oa ee eee nee he 145 
City Ghibwee series eee eee 152 
City Government Offices........ 87 
City Has ea eee eet eeeeee 81 


190 HANDY GUIDE, TOWNE W YORK, Clix, 


PAGE 
CityeHalleingand around: seer 84 
City Halli quare sass se eee 83, 84 

nCityoL Churchesmlnem oases 162 
CityseniSOD NE WEeeee ene 110 


Claremonts. 7 sapere ee eee SS 
Clearing House, The New Bank 8, 78 


“Cleopatra's Needle wien: i 54 
ClubsmnGisocietiesss eee eene 152 
Clyde Steamship Company..... 6 
Coachese. o2 shane eee 14 
Coastwise Steamship Lines..... 6, 9 
College of the City of New York 136 
CollescesPoint Merivecse eee 26 
ColonialiGlubpe eee eee eee 153 
Colony Club (Women) 122 Madi- 

SOnJAVEN TT sited ee zee eee 153 
GolttimibiasWUmiviersitveree wees: 138 


Columbia University Library.. 139 
Columbus Monumentand Plaza 42 


Communipaw) Mery. scenes eee. 26 
Compagnie Generale Transat- 
lant GUELAS moe aeeee ere enee 6 
GoncertiHallst eee ce ee 39 
Gonéy Islandia eee 181 
Congregational Churches....... 124 
Consolidated Petroleum and 
Stock hxchancenneaaieee cee 78 
Cooper iWnloneeeeoe eee tence I41 
Cooper UnionmWibratry. enone: 147 
Cortlandt Street Ferry.......... 26 
CountyotNew Works eee ene 89 
Criminals Countisuash Gescreer 89 
GrosseLOWiloIwesee re eres 25 
Grotonalbarkee eee eee 62 
Cunard ines eo eee eee 6 
Gustompblousemlbhe: assesses 5b Sik 


DELAWARE, LACKAWAN- 
NA & Ween Wail roaGdi aa O 


Democratic Clibeeeeene eee 153 
Desbrosses Street Ferry........ 26 
Detective Bureau, The.......... III 
Deutscher Verein Club ..2....-- 13 
Door olbopen these ete oaeeee ie 
Down-Town Association........ 153 
Drive, The (Central Park)....... 51 
Drives 2 er eee Eee eae 63 
Drvy-d0cksSte ete eee acer 170 
Dutch Reformed Churches. .... II9 
BASTCHESTER ATARI AES ae eA 178 

East River Bridge, New....29, 31 
EKaglé ROCK cern rere 18 
Educational Institutions........ 136 
Eighteenth Street Station ...... 23 
Blevated Rar liweavy.s merece aeons 19 
Bllis Islands. sce eee eee TOS 
Hmercency Hospitalesnscee.eeeee 132 
Bneimecnrs (Clu bp eee 153 
HpiscOpalianne hte lies tte eneer IIo 


Equitable Life Building, The... 82 
Brie sRallroade naan eee To 
Esplanades, The (Central Park) 46 


PAGE 
TexG lances, Vc 0 US eee earn 68 
Exhibitions penetrance 38 
Byeand Harinirmanyen ene 04 
PALL REV ERg ENS ee eee 
Herries, Varlousmasaeecceeen 26, 8 
Fifth Ave. Presby terian Church 123 
FittmAvenwe Stacesewo.peeeses: 26 
Binancialelnstitiiiion sass sees 67 
Fire Department, The........... 117 
I IVvielPOIntis eae note eee 112 
Five Points HouseofIndustry.. 133 
Hive Points) Mission eeeeeniee oes 133 
Hlorence: Missionit.2:2.8ec penne 109 
HOrtils€ eases iidisecoen ee eee 180 
Hortivee Berivere se eee 28 
HOGEI Via CSWWOlsth sen eee see 103 
Franklins Street Merny..noeeeeneen 28 
Free Circulating Library, The.. 145 
Pree WMasonryenscaeeienore ete 156 
Hultonvicerryceaccer cece ee eee 28 
GETTING Aboutthe. Citys mer0 


Governor's Island Ferry... 28 


Grace Churches ee ee ee eee 121 
GramercysPark oy. ces a. seein many OA 
Grand Central Station wen. sae 
ApproachesitOn. seen eee eee 14 
GrandiStreet Merry. eecseemetene 28 
Grants talwenauie eens 167 
Grantisehombeeee see ee eee 56 
GreatenNewavork sae ter. 159 
[Bon mei NS Chie seqs ocaasd Secdac oabe 159 
Extentofeeieei ee. eee 159 

7 Greek letters .Clubssmeeeerte 153 
GreenpointWerry eee eee 28 
Greenwood Cemetery............ 165 
H4A&s& cred aah atevavere avere ae eiateleeioterete 14, 16 
Halkofihamer cease score 141 
alliotiRvecordsmee seston 15, 84 
Hamburg-American Line. ...... 6 
Hamil tonrHeniyanaseuseocenenmerte 28 
HarborvAnlOumOmlthey ess eee TOS 
Harbor Policer hese snes III 
Harmonie Clube eee nee 153 
HartiorGelinen.pennes cee eee 9 
Harvard © libata: Cone eeeeee 153 
Health Department s....ss2eeeeee III 
Hebrews in New York........... 126 
Hobokentivees oestrone 180 
Hoboken Héerciest esate 28 
Holland-American Line......... 6 
Hospitalstand €harithesase-s cen 131 
Hotels) Listsvol jesse cee: 194, 195 
Humane Societitessa- see eee 134 
Hunters Point Meriva eee 28 


[NTRODUCTION to New York 3 
Inland Towns of New Jersey 181 


INDEX 191 


PAGE 

JACKSON SOWA RH a ny ey 44 
Jeannette Squares act eect 43 
TEESE VAG) EM oe teiiene c e eee 179 
Jersey City Ferries (see map)... 28 
LUCE LIne uaa Sau cs ve eee eee 117 


KING'S DAUGHTERS and 
SonsInternationalOrderof 131 
ea See (Ulster & Delaware 


READ oe Sh con ats CMe SRI 9 
Knickerbocker Glubyincs teste: 153 
Knickerbocker Theater........ 36 
LAMBS CIGSUB are te hea pastas 153 

WaAWwVeLsS Clube ees more. 153 
ISEGEOERESHER ete on ee eters 41 
Lehigh Valley Railroad.......... 10 
Senoxieibrarvece ned ieeee eee 144 
WenoxsZVGeUIne settee eres 4I 
PPCULE @ RatOGa sates teaa aera. ote 34 
Wiberty statue, elhesaeese eco 106 


Library of Columbia University 137 
Libraries and Reading Rooms.. 142 


iederkranzZelhner.-se eee. ee 39 
Lines North of Harlem River. 25 
“Little Church ‘round the Cor- 
NEC ke Dn eee arith Mees ee 122 
one Htanens .« seston ese cette 179 
Long Island City Ferries........ 28 
Long Island Coast Resorts...... ithe} 
Konr islands allroadse ccs nee 12 
Otros Glib en eee tetilec ce 153 
Lower Park (Central Park)..... 44 
MutheranjGhurcheses.-s2 1. oe 125 
Maes SOUARB Ms. cusses 27 


Madison Square Garden..38, 40 
Madison Square Presbyterian 


CHUL Nese toe ee renee ef Dien 123 
Maine Steamship Company..... 6 
Malieiive (Central Park) en 46 
Mallory inesccamarocctiee ee. 6 
Manhattan cachisseearertaes ccc 183 
Mai tata: © LUlbmete mae renee tee TS 3} 
Mariner’ s Church, St olst aster aed 126 

Ma Gye OwW.el lamer oder eens 9 
MasSoniculemplemihne niente. 156 
Medicine (see under Bellevue, 

Columbia University, and Uni- 

versity of City of New York) 
Menarerniesc Diner sock eencecees 45 
Mercantile Library, The........ 148 
Merchants Glab.uas bop es penne 153 
Messenger Ser-*se 7) *. oo eee eee 34 
Methodist Episcopal Churches 124 
Metropolitan Clirber sae csce: 153 
Metropolitan Museum of Art...52-54 
Metropolitan Onera House..... 38 
Midland Beach ise... Rarer en 6 172 
Miscellaneous Institutions. .... 141 
Moravian Society, The.......... T25 


Morgan Line (Southern Pacific 
Railroad) 


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NOT LUC we esate: doieets coe: 132 
Morningside Heights............ 60 
Moy rats rok eBwelke Me Re nse 60 
Morris & Essex Railroad........ 10 
MountiMornistea wares...) eee 61 
Mount VieENON*: ste ss seete eee. 177 
Mulberry Bendel Nevos..5 esse 113 
Miliberryependsbariesenu so. 113 
Munson Steamship Line........ 6 
MuseumofNaturalHistory,The 48 
Museums and Galleries......... 4I 
Music, Lectures and  Exhi- 
DItlONS urd mee ae eee eae 38 
MUSICAIES OCICLIECS | siansientracie cee 39 


NALIONAL ACADEMY OF 


HISESIOM Geert teeth se st a een 149 
National Sculpture Society..... 150 
INA VVENIA LG oe cote Candee octet e oeenee 167 
Newburgh (two lines)........... 9 
New Haven(N.Y.,N.H.&H.R.R.) 9 
New Jersey Coast Resorts...... 175 
New Jersey Northern Railroad 10 
ING WalersSeysNOLrGn.cw.a. + nuenen ss 179 
NewsRochelleyy tea te. 177 
NEWSpDabperOmcess..0 eno ee 84 
New York Athletic Club........ 154 
New York Central & Hudson 

Riven Ral leoade anaes nce ee 12 
INeweVork'G litbme assess: 154 
New York & Cuba Mail Steam- 

SIAC ON Aid vase eae eters temas 6 
New York & Greenwood Lake 

Ra road eee seen eee ne Io 
New York & Harlem mobs 12 
New York Historical Society... 157 
Newaviork Hospitalwelbhesss se 132 
New York. New Haven & Hart- 

LOndeWaillrOad a ascent eae 12 
New work .eablic Vibraryv....- 142 
New York & Porto Rico Steam- 

ShipiGoss Meeew.. nace aoe aters 6 
New York & Putnam Railroad.. 12 
New York, Susquehanna c 

IWiestecn wal lroadesasss- ore To 
New York Stock Exchange...... 78 
INews Vor wacht Club win... .en.e Tey 
Nocturnal Ramble,A Routefora 109 
Normal College, The...... ...... 138 
Nocti brotherlslandeew.s. sen 133 
North (or Bower y Beach) Ferry 28 
North German Lioyd Line...... 


6 
North River Water Front, The. 100 


OBELISK, SH BR ue enn oe 54 

Ocean Ssteamenrse... eee I0l 
Ocean Grovestsee.. eee soe 179 
WAC ElIOWSie sae seareieae tees 157 
OHIOISOCTetVete Cee eee 154 


Old Dominion Steamship Co... 9 


PAINTINGS (see Metropoli: 
tan Museum of Art). 


192 HANDY GUIDE TONE WVORK CI iy, 


; _PAGE 
Panama Railroad Steamship 
LAN G2. iret saesses meen cetmatiek 9 


Parks and Drives North of the 
Harleny ese tec eee 61 

Park Plaza; The (Brooklyn)... 164 

Park Row, (Locking North from 
Broadway and Vesey Street). 33 


Pavonial Wena ron tener 28 
Pethany2e sec ene eee 178 
PelhamibavabaL cee eee nee 62 
Pennsylvania Railroad.......... To 
PhenvtelWine 4. casera 6 
Philadelphia & Reading R.R.... Jo 
Plaversi@litbeer tenon eee 154 
PoliceHorces tite reees eeheceree cel 
Police-Headquarterste. saeeecee iit 
Porto Rico Steamship Company 6 
Posti@ficesmibhe: ee aaee ce sane 32 
List of Sub-Stations of the...32, 34 
Presbyterian Churches......... 22 
Press Club aewae hee oe 154 
Prince Lines. coe eee 6 
Brintines Ouse Ss duaLenretene 84 
Private Philanthropies.......... 133 
Produce Exchange, The......... 67 
Progress iClubte seen 154 
Prombitionseanke see eeeereee 171 
Prospect Park (Brooklyn)...... 162 
Public sSchoolSen nese eeeee 136 
Public Library System..... A Segh 1902) 


UAKERS' Meeting Houses.. 125 
Quebec Steamship Co...... 9 
Queensboro Bridge.............- ai 


RASQUET AND TENNIS CLUB. 153 
RAILROADS, various: 
Connecting with New York... 10 
Elevated in New Yor 


RatlwavioratiOnse see eee 10, I4 
Ramble, The (Central Park).. 47 
RambleatNir hia nee eeeeteeee 109 
Randallest sland eeeenneccaee ence 133 
Rapicdidaransitylealicocdcla=se eee 23 
RECEEATIONERICLS eeeeeenie eee 44 
RediD2 Wines es. oe ee eae 9 
Red Stam ines cmcs eestor ne 6 
RetormiGlub sree eee ee 154 
Religious Organizations......... 130 
RepublicanasGlnibeeee ree I54 
Residences, Clubs, Hotels, etc. 90 
RidingsCl ules eee reer enree 154 
Rivers and Harbor, The......... 100 
Riverside Parkceereeeeeecccecs 57 
Rivetoteam boatsnerreemeecrme cee 9 
ROCKAWAY see eee 183 
Roman Catholic Churches.. .126, 129 
Roman Catholic Institutions... 142 
Rooseveltherry ame eenieneoe ee 128 


ROOSEVElt Hos piitalaaesee eens 
Koval Dutch West Indies Mail 


PAGE 
SAILOR'S SNUG HARBOR.. 170 
St. Andrew, Brotherhood of 131 
StnGeorve Suchunch yeas 
Site Pee the Divine, Cathedral 
Becks LS aaa oe, Bee a Ras 129 
St Luke's Hospital@ee ee ip 
Site Nicholas (Glib seaess eee 154 
Sit eatnickys Caciredia lasses 128 
St. Paul’s Chapel and Church- 
VAT ot cases eee ee ple tense tomes 12, 120 
Si Vincent si Hospitals 132 
SalmaciuncdicC li bye eee ee 154 
Salvation Army, sUhers.5...ce.ne 131 
SEHWAOEM El SLANE. sso contoodonddsoe 9 
Scandinavian-American Line.. 6 
scientific Alliance, The voice. ee ey 


ties 
Seaside and Suburban Resorts. 173 


Sewardubarkieee. sae hese 44 
SecretiOrdersn-seecee eee eee 156 
SocialiChubsta. peer eee ee 152 
Society of American Artists.... 150 


Society for Prevention of Crime 135 
Society for the Prevention of 


Cruelty to Animalsin2. 7... 134 
Society for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to.Cchildrense sneer 134 


Society for Suppressionof Vice 135 
Society Library, The 


Sound Steanib oars aes eeeeereeeer 9 
SOUth Brook lym Hentvereeeeeeeee 28 
Southern Pacific Co. (Formerly 
Gromwellsine) =e eee ee 9 
South Statenelslands eae 171 
SDeCd Way cL Mes eerode eee: 62 
State Charities Aid Association 133 
Staten lSlandsen eee eee 170 
Staten lslands Henny scenes 28, 172 
Staten Island Trolley Lines.... 172 
Statue of Nathan Hale.......... 74, 84 
Steamboats, River and Sound.. 9 
SteamshipavanGdinese eeeeeetees 3,9 
Steamship Lines, Various....... 246, 
Stockshxchanvgen nea nee seee. 78 
Stonington (Railroad to Boston) 9 
Stuyvesant Salanre. meee eee 04 
Sltp-theaSuilnys wine a eeneineeers 76 
Surface. CareROUteCS a nanseeeeeees 24 
Swedenborgians in New York.. 126 
Synagogues...... div edganavetetayen® 126 
TAXICABS ialetovecrater eke ecatieetce a oterere 14 
Teachers’ College and 
HonacelVianns SCHOO messes 140 
‘Telerraphs Me eee ee 34 
‘helephonestaesac ae eer eee 


emplethinanu- ieee eee 
Terraceand Lake(CentralPar 


Theaters, List of.. ST, 
Theaters in Brooklyn. Be ane It 160 
himes Bullicingeassenees eres 2 
-LOmbSAc UNG... oo aac neers 90 


Tour of the City, Ae 


INDEX. 


at PAGE 
LEIDity Gnuren atc ee ee 118, 119 
iirinity. Churchyard. eee 120 
PLT OPOOMMEL herb aveoA saesee ee 103 
Troy, Citizens’ Line.. Ae SRE 8 
Tunnals ti Meese je ee 24 
En weltthan tehtiGlil pees 154 
Twenty-third Street Ferry...... 28 
UNION ON DAS s Rene sh, ee 154 
Union beastie Clube. 154, 155 
NTONESC Watches ee ere 96 
Union Theological Seminary... I41 
Unitarian Chunches= eee setae 125 
Universalista€ hunchestpercee.- 126 
University Clube eteetetee ee. 156 
University of the City of New 
WOrKerre tere ee Fh hI Re gp ie 140 
VAN CORTUAND PARK...... 61 
Wall SS DR Riis Deere sete Spo. 9D 
Weaallt Street? Merryes. cccct 28 
Wards 1Slang ence tater t en coat case 133 


193 
PAGE 
Washing rOneAnGlieentnschitc ste 64 
NVaShinetoiles Gian eee ae 64 
MatenmC@olonmsocietya a. 150 
Weehawken erties pens cne 180 
Weehawken Ferries............. 28 
NWiest DicloiitOnie reece na noe 173 
Westchester County Resorts... 180 
West Shoreand Ontario &West- 

CENA alli AGSer eee eis cei. 10 
White Cross Society, The....... 131 
Wilite is tareloiilesi wert eet e 6 
AY VEN aya) AAW OREN). semi, Mio Seok epi eo ire 6 
Woman's Hospital of the State 

OLEN EG waVionrlee reer sires 132 
NVOIMENESHE Ce SsiCll Omnteme eee 156 
YALE CLUB RAMs 156 

WVONnKELES Sa aa on steno tees 178 
Young Men’s Christian Associa- 

KONO hen te SiS ORE cadet ae aot 130 
Young Women’s Christian Asso- 

CIAtION ween. Se ethereal aie tee 136 
J SIs GARDEN 

EA Hiereenee re tn clas reeiccd: weiner 623 


HOTEL RAYMOND ** 


2 blocks from Broadway. 28th Street 
Subway Station at the door. 
from Hudson Tubes at 6th Avenue and 
28th Street. 

Five minutes from Grand Central Station 
at 42nd Street, or Penna. R. R. Station 
at 7th Avenue. 


CONVENIENT TO THEATRES AND SHOPS 


Special rates by the week or month. A quiet family hotel. 


for booklet. 


East 28th Street 
NEW YORK 


3 blocks 


EUROPEAN PLAN 


Single Rooms $1.50 Per 
Day—with Bath $2.00 


Apartments accommodating 3 
or more persons, from $4.00 


to $5.00 per day. 


AMERICAN PLAN 


Single Rooms $2.50 Per 
Day—with Bath $3.00 


Write 
MARK A. CADWELL. 


VISITORS TO NEW YORK CITY 
Desiring hotel accommodation in the best part of the 
city, close to the shopping and theatre district, should con- 


sult the following list: 


HOTEL MARTHA WASHINGTON 


29th to 30th Streets, Near Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK 
EXCLUSIVELY FOR WOMEN 


450 Rooms en suite and single. $1.50 per day and up, European plan. 
Telephone in every room. Numerous baths on each floor free to guests. 


Caters to women especially traveling or visiting New York alone. Conven- 


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NAME 


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IN NEW YORK 


LOCATION RATE PER DAY 
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Pee VLAGISONMESG.aV CSlae ene tee ene ec OD otro pean 
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....59 W. 44th St Set Hib ieiiskuuel ore retetaonte  Ctelieie stent ; with Bath 


2.50 up European 
2.00 up European 
PesLOddwavadiGss are leva teen ates 1.00up European 
Pee bLoadwav ang (th otemanee eee OUD European 
somal 40l Sic, uae eye, sane oda doth 2.50 up European 
eb GOAC Waves 29 Liles Uaeneneees arte 1.50 up European 


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Buckinghamsaeence eee Bi Lhcn eA wie atl ds o0 thincsumeeccee ee eae 1.50up European 
Binlineto nie seer eee LO WiesinoU this tie ae te eee ene Ol Tl DI  Uneopecdn 
Gad lace arches BLOAG WAV AlCl oGis tere eee 1.50up European 
Carltontens ee. ee ROSE OL LSS tee seca cee cease 3 00up European 
Cecile once as ees OO NWViESt Din deAwicnnee irae ie 1.50 up European 
@helSeaares wenn. che. Bir NMC PB GRO coi eAtmanicn ore onto our 1.50 up European 
CGumberlandesene eee: BrOac waved: p4 Dic teens } eee 
2 . 1.50 up European 

Ha rlewenteidh ic nileies cote dex LOB aia Ve Lbyel la Ger nes eeeis toe } 3 OOup American 
Binipireeree co ie eee iBrapielheky gual (GSfeol Sirs asesn panancac 1.50 up European 
Hnaicottar ns eee ne Columbus Ave: and sistisitee.. ss. 1.50 up European 
HlAancdersrste ects oe ciiens ASV VEAT UlioS bectent emcee weiner 2.00 up European 
; E 1.50 up European 
Hredenicke atu ce meee HOuneSte Neale broadway. cree } S Ober in 
Géxvand ee ae ee ee Aubrey Sis, ileahe IB RORY Gag ouccod ; Pee 
Gotham-se so oer ee ae Fifth Ave. and 55th St............. 2.50up European 
Grrr Ce seeetie tranny shmnoence BLOACWoNacdtl Cliollsity Ss leeenneenrr 1.50up European 
GranadsUnitoneenee ee Parke Avevand 42d)Sie =. ser vate 1.00 up European 
Great Norineri ee: TOR EVU BTC St een fiero neo, Gee } et Dt bee 
Elacwt Osh Gh sac e ena: TOW: 49th tease ee Se tee 5.00 up American 
Heralossatanenrnce seis BEOAG Wa yea TLCrs4 Glin bene eee 1.50 up European 
dm Wey i aah eWeek ete Se a pit 8 ie Seventh Aviesancdrtedes tween ce 1.50up European 
ELottinarn ELOuS ea -eeee ee BroazawayeanGecotliio teense 2.00 up European 
Hollandsrouse....- Set ae HMitthvAVersandsOthns teens 2.00 up European 
HotelpPA Stores seeie eco: Broadway ang 44thist)...cs8-e eee DU lp Auropean 
Dep ecia lee ask ace cents Broadway and s2d St.,..0.2+4s22 DULL D European 
, : 2.50 up European 

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NAME LOCATION 
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Latha miroere cone ieee eet Wh Stanear Mifth Aves 
Wel Marquis Hlotels eee IZ HASESISTS ties veaeneaet see racer 
[SONZACKeLat ee er eae A(t taUst Ott bLOAG Wa yaererenie 
OEGAING are cee a anor JDihe dor vee, shovel “yey Shes noosa soon 
TSUCErN Caen oer 79th St. and Amsterdam Ave..... 
MalEStiCyeeeeacen ier ates 72d Steand Central ParkiW.s-. ee 
Manhattaneecemeeeeeenearace: Madison Ave. and 42d St......... 
Mair gare teense: 95 Columbia Heights Brooklyn ; 
Marie Antoinette......... lBhdopel ely Bharal (fll Sito oaosncanbox 
Manlboroweheees. seeeceeee Broadwayrandis6thioteneeeeeeseer 
Martha Washington....... 29 E. 29th St. (Women only)....... 
Mantiniguewan sn. een escn Broadiwavand ssdus iene aeee tee 
IMIS aan EA eee ee BarkewAv ceand@0thns tasceren aerner 
Nanracansettee. ce oo Broadwayeand O5dus taeeeecaeeee 
NaVALEEG Sherrnee Hote ene Seventh Ave. and 88th St....... i 
Netherland iene: meaner MitthsAviesand both iSite.ce:a.eeeeee 
IN@waWieESton manne sees 49th St. and Madison Ave......... 
INOTManGlereteseecnees Broadway andssthi steerer 
Oxford’ a See sshelalnsiits GuaKoh IPipelke ANUS). Gon mcooddoms 
Park Avenueinaeescsere ones ParkeAy eran disccis teeereeeeeree 
Blagastoecae ht eee Fifth Ave., 58th and 59th Sts ...... 
Portlan Geasseerntc: seers 1B2E Wrath tse eerie ee 
BrinicesGeoreeernanecceeene OU Fh yy oh d obey heme Ges doommasoce 
Rector eee aeerne Broad wavaanciethes teenie 
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Sevilleiise curren hen ooweans Madison Ave. and 29th St......... 
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RATE PER DAY 


2.50 up European 
1.50 up European 
3.00 up European 
1.00up European 
Apply European 
2.00 up European 
2.00 up European 
2.50up European 
1.00up European 
3.50 up American 
2.00up European 
1.00up European 
1.50up European 
1.50 up European 


1.50up European 
with Bath 


2.00 up European 
1.00 up European 
2.50 up European 
1.50up European 


2.00 up European 
2.00 up European 


8.00 up European 
1.00 up European 


2.00 up European 
4.00 up American 
3.00 up European 
1.50 up European 
3.50 up American 
2.00 up European 
2.00 up European 
3.00up American 
1.50up European 


2.00 up European 
2.00 up European 
3.00 up European 
1.50 up European 
2.50 up European 
3.00 up European 
2.00 up European 


1.50 up European 
2.50 up European 
with Bath 


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Seventh Avenue at 38th Street 
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350 Rooms | . yeh Moe ae ee ee 200 Baths — 
A Room with a Bath for a Dollar and a‘Half 

A Room with a Bath fora Dollar and a Half 
Other Rooms with Bath......... $2.00. and: $2.50 
Rooms for two persons.........$2. 50:2 and $3.00 
DUTCH GRILL—MUSIC — : 

Finest in town (ala carte) 

Send for Colored Map of New York 
PLAZA HOTEL Chicago, under “the. same management 
Edgar T. Smith. 

Manaxing Director 


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ALBANY, N. Y. 


Albany's most popular _hostelry. 
Most centrally located hotel in the 
City. Home of the toumist and travel- 
ing man. Best Cafe in the State. 


Rates - $1.00 to $5.00 


EUROPEAN PLAN 
Holloran & McCormick, Props. 


HOTEL MARLBOROUGH 


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@ Most centrally located hotel on Broadway 

@ Four beautiful dining rooms 

@ The famous Rathskeller has been greatly 
improved 

@ Vocal and instrumental music every evening 


@ European plan. 4400 rooms, 200 baths 


SCHEDULE OF RATES 


90! rooms, priviléve*of bathe ys. a) eee ee 1D 
S0srOoms, withsbatu. week a tae ee oe 
60 rooms, with bath.. Te meine iete Pras, PANN 
50 rooms, with bath. . ech » RI reorr 2000 


45 suites—parlor, bed 1 room and bath... ar ree oto WU) 
For extra person in room. i Re LOO 


Write ‘Sey Booklees 


SWEENEY-TIERNEY HOTEL COMPANY 


E. M. TIERNEY, Managing Director 


HOTEL EMPIRE 


Broadway and Sixty-Third St. .°. New York City 


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IN THE VERY CENTRE OF EVERYTHING 


Restaurant noted for its excellent cooking, efficient service and 
moderate charges. 


Within 5 minutes’ walk of all Theatres and Department Stores. 
All cars and 5th Avenue motor buses pass the door. 


From New Penn. Station walk through 38rd St. to Junction Broadway 
and 6th Ave. and take 9th Ave. L train to 66th St. (Kmpire 
one minute walk), or Broadway and Columbus 
Ave. surface car to Empire door. 


From Grand Central Station take Subway to Columbus Circle (one 
minute from Hotel), or car marked “Broadway” direct to Empire. 


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40 Rooms, with Detached Bath, $1.00 per day 
100 Rooms, with Detached Bath, $1.50 per day 
150 Rooms, with Private Bath, $2.00 per day up 
75 Rooms, with Dressing room and Bath, $2.25 per day 
100 Suites, with Private Bath, $3.50 per day up 


Elevated Railway and Subway stations one minute’s walk from our door. 


W. JOHNSON QUINN, Proprietor 


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MBROKE 


= 4 116 E, 25th Street 
NEW YORK 


Between Fourth and Lexington 


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Just ten minutes from any railroad 
station or ferry. In the heart of the 
shopping and the theatre section. 
The Pembroke is a private Amer- 
ican Plan Hotel, accommodating 
nearly one hundred guests. The 
home-like atmosphere is one of 
quiet refinement and good taste. 
Spacious Parlors, Home Cooking, 
Hotel Service, Steam Heat, Tele- 
vhones, Electric Light. 


RATES 
Room and Board $2 to $3 Per Day 
Room and Board $10 to $20 Per Week 
Double Room and Board $25 to$30 *‘ 


NEW BINGHAM HOTEL 
11th AND MARKET STREETS’  .*. PHILADELPHIA 


Most centrally located hotel in the city. Directly opposite Reading R. R. 
Terminal. Three minutes from Broad Street Station, Pennsylvania R.R. 
EUROPEAN PLAN 300 ROOMS $1.50 Upwards 
Finest Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Restaurant in Philadelphia 

Beautiful Roof Garden during warm season. 


BINGHAM HOTEL CO. DAVID iB PROVANS Manager 


HOTEL CUMBERLAND 


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NEW YORK 


Broadway at 54th Street 


Near 50th Street Subway 
Station and 53d Street 
Elevated. 


‘‘Broadway’’ Cars from 
Grand Central Depot pass 
the door. 


NEW AND FIREPROOF 


Best Hotel Accommoda- 
tions in New York at 
Reasonable Rates 


$2.50 with Bath, 
and up 


EUROPEAN PLAN 


All Hardwood Floors and 
Oriental Rugs 


Ten minutes’ walk to 
20 Theatres 


Excellent Restaurant 
Prices Moderate. 


Send for Booklet. 
HARRY P. STIMSON, Formerly with Hotel Imperial. 


Only New York Hotel window-screened throughout. 


Tenth and ‘‘H’’ Streets, N. W. 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 


A Strictly First-Class House! 


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# have private bath in room. 
We pay particular attention to our table. 
American and European Plans 


The Lincoln Hotel 


Very quiet location, but within one square of the heart of 
the business section. Convenient to all places of amusement 


Sample rooms for traveling salesmen. All outside rooms; 
running hot and cold water in every room; all large rooms 


American $2.00 to $2.50 per day. European $1.00°to $2.00 per 


By day. Take Taxicab at depot at our expense—have driver 


collect at Hotel office. 


C. 8. HYATT, Proprietor. 


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103-105 WAVERLY PLACE 


One Block West of Fifth Avenue and Washington Arch 
The location is of the very best in the City. One block from the Sixth Avenue 


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200 ROOMS AND 100 BATHS AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN 


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ne ms for twos) ee 2.50 
with Meals, - $3.00 
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HOTEL ARLINGTON 


18-20 West 25th Street 


near Broadway 


EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN PLAN 
AMERICAN PLAN 


$2. 50 PER DAY UP 


Handsomely furnished; every convenience; a few minutes 
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122-124 West 49th Street 
Between 6th and 7th Avenues 
EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN PLAN 
AMERICAN PLAN 


$2.50 PER DAY UP 


Entirely renovated and refurnished. In the centre of the city. 
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CORNER NEW YORK BETWEEN BATTERY AND 


THIRD STREET. CENTRAL PARK. 


Has during the past five years been thoroughly rebuilt and completely reorganized at 
an expense of Over a quarter of a million dollars, and is perfect in detail and unsurpassed ir 
comfort and convenience. Recommends itself for its thoroughly careful management, its 
clean, well-kept rooms, admirable table and service, and reasonable charges. 

LOCATION ABSOLUTELY UNEQUALED FOR BUSINESS, SIGHT-SEEING, AND PLEASURE. 

All the New Rapid Transit Electric Lines passing the doors, run the entire length of 
Broadway from the Battery to Central Park, Grand Central R. R. Station, Lenox Avenue, 
Harlem River, High Bridge, and Grant’s Tomb, passing all the fashionable stores, theatres, 
and principal attractions of the city. 


GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT PASSENGERS CAN TAKE SUBWAY TRAINS TO BLEECKER STREET, 
one block from hotel, or LEXINGTON AVENUE ELECTRIC CARS one block east of the station, 
direct to or from the hotel to 42d Street,or Fourth Avenue cars direct to Astor Place or 
Bond Street, one block in front. 

TWO LINES OF ELEVATED RAILROADS: Sixth Avenue Station, Bleecker Street, one 
block in the rear. Third Avenue Station, Houston Street, two blocks in front. 
te ie oy on poachib cars transfer at Broadway with the electric lines, taking guests direct 

e hotel. 

Passengers arriving by any of the ferries, or either foreign or coastwise steamers, can 
take any cross-town car, or walk to Broadway and take electric cars direct to the hotel or 
via the Sixth or Third Avenue Elevated, stopping at Bleecker on Sixth Avenue, and 
Houston Street Station on Third Avenue line, three minutes from hotel. 


THE CENTRAL WILL BE RUN ON BOTH THE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. 
The Regular Tariff of Charges for each person will be 


For Room only, - © = «= -« 1.00, $1.50, and $2.00 
For Room and Board, - - = 2.50, $3.00, and $3.50 
For Single Meals, - 5 ot ep eer es 75 cents 


Meals, when taken with rooms, for full day, 50 cents each 
Rooms with parlor or bath, extra 
According tosize, location, and convenience, and whether occupied by one or more persons, 


SPECIAL RATES FOR FAMILIES OR PERMANENT QUESTS, 


FOR FULL PARTICULARS, SEND FOR LARGE COLORED MAP 
FREE AND OTHER INFORMATION TO 


BROADWAY CENTRAL 
HOTEL, 
NEW YORK 


1554 


30112 1 3941 


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Map of New York 


For full particulars send for large colored maps 
and other information. 


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HERALD SQUARE HOTEL 
__» EUROPEAN PLAN 


Thirty-Fourth Street Just West of Broadway, New York City 


NEW. FIREPROOF. 


One block from New Penn. 
R. R. Station. Baggage 
free to and from. One 
block from 33rd “Street 
-| Station of Hudson Term- 
inal Routes, Connecting 
with all Railroads Enter- 
ing Jersey City and D. L. 
a & W.R.R. and Steamers 
| docking at Hoboken, and 
convenient to N. Y. Cen- 
tral and N.- Yi, N, H, & 
Hartford R. R. : 
Rocm, with privilege of bath, $1.50 per day and 
upwards. Room, with private bath, $2.00 per day and 
upwards. Restaurant a la carte. Popular club 
breakfasts. 


Cable Address , c. F. Wildey & Son, Props. 


Wilderald_ 


COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL 


CHAMBERS ST. AND WEST BROADWAY NEW YORK 


EUROPEAN PLAN 


Rooms $1.00 per day and upwards and special rate by 
the week. Convenient to. wholesale district. Spa- 
cious Restaurant and Lunch Rooms. Popular prices. 
Easy of access from all railroad stations and ferries. 


Cable Address C. F. Wildey & Son, Props. z= 


Mopolitan 


